CRYPTIC CLUES 2-Speed Crossword ACROSS

1 Sam and Kurt reconditioned fur (7)

5 Revolting person in Hilaire Belloc (5)

8 Together with chopped mango (5)

9 Deal that’s been wrapped up? (7)

10 SOS with Clare wrecking game (8)

11 Wood on motorway causes crush (4)

13 Gathering coal is messy (6) 15 She has awful breath (6)

18 Champ, caught, fell (4)

19 Fantastic chap turned into strange deity (8)

22 Breakwater protects one adventurer (7)

23 Free pardon rejected: hanging seen inside! (5)

24 Renowned editor chasing new books (5)

25 Misery ends explosively in SAS (7)

DOWN

1 Complaint from me before son gets in beers (7)

2 Cool type in expeditions to iceberg (5)

3 Criminal or genial local (8)

4 Worker’s wonderfully tipsy time (6) 5 Music from The Stones presumably? (4)

6 Conspicuous creatures around lake (7)

7 Cold fish served up with hot worm (5)

12 Insisted on staff having day in action (8)

14 Smoke with heart-throb in bed (7)

16 Eternal promise of facecream salesmen? (7)

17 Cold syrup produced in the island (6)

18 Bird or jailbird pocketing a penny (5)

20 Crazy to release son, and pointless (5)

21 Heavy metal from humble admirer (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Aquatic mammal (7)

5 Maverick (5)

8 Surrounded by (5)

9 Parcel (7)

10 Netted sticks sport (8)

11 Reduce to pulp (4)

13 Gregarious (6)

15 Big German cannon (6)

18 Masticate (4)

19 Blasting compound (8)

22 Trailblazer (7)

23 Cover as with cloth (5)

24 Observed (5)

25 Sorrow (7)

DOWN

1 Contagious illness (7)

2 Uncomplaining (5)

3 Relating to an area (8)

4 Keyboard operator (6)

5 Boulder (4)

6 Flagrant (7)

7 Bloodsucker (5)

12 Urgently requested (8) 14 Sort of cigar (7)

16 Lasting forever (7)

17 Mediterranean nation (6) 18 Poultry item (5)

20 Mindless (5)

21 Graphite (4)