2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Composer tours English coast (5)

4 Sild and roe prepared in private? (7)

8 State embargo inter alia? (7) 9 Setback incomplete for Queen and Country (5)

10 Crazy ten years we have in company? (9)

11 Fast U-boat bags slow ship (3)

12 Vegetable king stuffed into nozzle (6)

14 Crawler’s joined religious faction? (6)

17 Rubbish from dictator (3)

19 Vessel has tangled rope at bow (9)

22 Mob in speech or debate (5) 23 Underworld girl in sack (7) 24 Country bar in Spanish city (7)

25 Woman regularly pawning item (5)

DOWN

1 Tomb, laden, contains weapon (5)

2 Judge a right vicious dog? (7) 3 Believer from Nazareth in dungeon (5)

4 Jack: Irishman round in the morning (6) 5 Somehow learn about books, light to carry (7)

6 Bar from behaving otherwise (5)

7 Lightly-cooked part in cheese dish (7)

12 Carrier succeeded rebuilding chalet (7)

13 MP needs support in UN: plenty (7)

15 Johnson’s rising importance in surrounding area? (7)

16 Small study about headless sheep in country (6)

18 Pound discovered in bathrobe (5)

20 Artist crossing a street to see devotee (5)

21 In dentist, as terrified, have trying experience? (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Strand (5)

4 Infantryman (7)

8 Balkan nation (7)

9 African river (5)

10 Retinue (9)

11 Bath (3)

12 Germinate (6)

14 Invertebrate creature (6)

17 Tasteless articles (3)

19 Fast motor craft (9)

22 Crowd (5)

23 Send away (7) 24 Middle-eastern land (7) 25 Singer Lennox (5)

DOWN

1 Cutting edge (5)

2 Referee (7)

3 Religious adherent (5)

4 Male sailor (6)

5 Portable lamp (7)

6 Metal brick (5)

7 Melted cheese dish (7) 12 School bag (7)

13 Innumerable (7)

15 Privileged pupil (7)

16 Nordic nation (6)

18 Pulsate (5)

20 Jamaican sectarian (5) 21 Refinement (5)