TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Washington holds one ’ s
record (4)
4 Appalling child read full
extract (8)
8 Clear to enter river in
Knock? (6)
9 Material about coil wound
(6)
10 Applaud role reversal?
Such tosh! (8)
12 Haddock’s last fish in boat's
bottom (4)
13 The old chaps meeting one
Arab (6)
15 Lizards in Nicaragua
somehow avoiding car (6) 17 Robert invests million: is it
mine? (4)
19 Bribe given to a
disreputable house (8) 21 Rage shown by monarch:
tough old bird (6)
22 Good composer in The
Stones? (6) 23 Combustible heap seen
over the mountains (8) 24 Still all square (4) DOWN 2 What croupier might say is
perfect? (5)
3 Cold dropout in food shop
(7) 4 Some Indo-European
female (3)
5 Old love knitted nice top
that proves rule? (9) 6 Who might one want to
exterminate? (5)
7 Leprous relative Jane
edges away! (7)
11 Pay back bruiser with me
given thrashing (9) 14 English coy about record in
study (7)
16 Ignorant girl has the goods
(7)
18 Busy individual penning
lines for stunner (5) 20 Robes expanding to
disguise fat (5) 22 Reversed slump in
American petrol (3)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS 1 Circular plate (4) 4 Horrible (8)
8 Ridicule (6)
9 Coarse cotton (6) 10 Balderdash (8)
12 Fall (over) (4)
13 Sana'a citizen (6) 15 Crested reptile (6) 17 Cased weapon (4) 19 One-storey home (8) 21 Water heater (6)
22 Small rock fragments (6) 23 Range in France and Spain
(8)
24 Level (4)
DOWN
2 Exemplary (5) 3 Takeaway outlet (7) 4 She-rabbit or deer (3) 5 Omission (9)
6 Robot with staccato voice
(5)
7 Soiled (7)
11 Indemnify (9)
14 Green science (7) 16 Oblivious (7)
18 Beautiful female (5) 20 Grossly overweight (5) 22 Helium, e.g. (3)