TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

Quick Clues ACROSS

3 Leftover amount (9) 8 Stripped tree sections (4) 9 Next-door resident (9) 10 Gains points (6) 11 At no time (5) 14 Graph (5) 15 Beloved (4) 16 Reddish dye (5) 18 Slighting remark (4) 20 Repeated series of events (5) 21 Oozes (5) 24 Fireplace (6) 25 Particles (9) 26 Lake (4) 27 Gauge again (9)

DOWN

1 Display unit (5,4) 2 Fool (9) 4 Sheep (4) 5 Fish (5) 6 Snatched (6) 7 Birds (4) 9 Scots town (5) 11 Numbers (5) 12 Walkway for dignitaries (3,6) 13 Coast (9) 17 Dull pains (5) 19 Venerate (6) 22 Stoppers (5) 23 Cavity (4) 24 Perceive aurally (4)

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

3 Rest obtained by dreamer in disturbed state (9) 8 Cut down mathematical quantities of wood? (4) 9 Blockhead follows animal noise to our friend next door, perhaps (9) 10 Makes a point and draws a line (6) 11 At no time embracing the lady (5) 14 Charles and Arthur, beginners, make a map (5) 15 Adorable? Sounds a beast! (4) 16 Dye helps make kitchen nasty (5) 18 Pass over a sign of inebriation (4) 20 It keeps coming round - being peddled, perhaps (5) 21 Observe - the bit at the end leaks (5) 24 Warm place for a hothead to go to ground (6) 25 Mouse goes crazy and smashes cell to atoms, almost (9) 26 Stretch of water not worth bothering about? (4) 27 Take another estimate - about an inch, for example? (9)

DOWN

1 Seen in a museum - a girl breaking into cages? (5,4) 2 Signor slightly disturbed and half amused - but doesn’t know much! (9) 4 Employ sound animals on the farm (4) 5 Fish in a corner (5) 6 Caught putting up embargo over bed (6) 7 Think about birds that are not flighty (4) 9 The poet’s below! (5) 11 Those before those before the pictures (5) 12 With which visitors are welcomed to the Russian Embassy? (3,6) 13 Move effortlessly - on a bicycle not wholly paid for? (9) 17 Miseries produced by each estimate (5) 19 Daydream I take leave to admire (6) 22 They bring quiet to the ears (5) 23 One of 22 might stop it, though there’s nothing in it (4) 24 To be repeated if you agree (4)