2-Speed Crossword

BRAINTEST ANSWERS

1.D)EddieMurphy 2.Words 3. “Romeo and Juliet” 4. Beyoncé 5. A) Guns N’ Roses 6. C) Bone marrow 7.A)Proton 8.Eight 9.Medley 10.D)JesusChrist(“Salvator Mundi”, attributed in wholeorinparttoLeonardodaVinci) 11.B)EmilyBlunt 12.ReeseWitherspoon 13.English

14. Peru 15. The Netherlands (Spar means “save” in many languages and also means spruce tree inDutch,hencethelogo) 16.A)Shiva 17.D)AlbertLuthuli 18.C)Vichy 19.StephenKing

20. A) “Home Improvement”

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Hairdresser under sail? (7)

5 Meat company in embargo (5) 8 See GI shot in wartime event (5)

9 Cheese stores have cake (7) 10 Fearless, I printed anyway (8) 11 Sympathy in coalmine ultimately phoney (4)

13 Communist at posh church cut down (6)

15 Person to ask “re-do it” potentially? (6)

18 When to live outside HQ (4) 19 Wiggling leg in my revealing garment (8)

22 Hostile once more with good man (7)

23 What news boss will do about Conservative decree (5) 24 Avoid city in Kansas (5)

25 Maybe Priam’s kin in Troy lay wounded (7)

DOWN

1 Fire bank employee (7)

2 Start off well: pint makes you clumsy (5)

3 Show on television initially in the money (8)

4 Poor cricketer’s talk (6)

5 Fan in sudden disappointment (4) 6 One given time to find guilty (7)

7 Born and died, unknown, poor (5)

12 Cheating lady true possibly? (8)

14 Shed was adequate for storing small wheels (7)

16 Likes of Apollo so warmly received in such corridors? (7) 17 Recovered gambler (6)

18 Poet hiding key in facial hair (5)

20 Good and bad rounds start off Robinson’s quiz (5)

21 Some stock needed for joint (4)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Three-masted ship (7)

5 Sliced pork (5)

8 Military encirclement (5) 9 Chocolate square (7)

10 Bold and brave (8)

11 Compassion (4)

13 Diminish (6)

15 Newspaper supremo (6) 18 Ignoble (4)

19 Light dressing-gown (8) 22 Versus (7)

23 Official order (5)

24 Cunning trick (5)

25 Author’s payment (7)

DOWN

1 Teller (7)

2 Incompetent (5)

3 Sham (8)

4 Burrowing mammal (6) 5 Punch (4)

6 Felon (7)

7 Destitute (5)

12 Marital infidelity (8)

14 Throw away (7)

16 Shuttle flight phase (7) 17 Improved (6)

18 Whiskers (5)

20 Barbecue (5)

21 Patella region (4)