TAKE A BREAK

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Tax increases for London,

perhaps (7,5)

8 Get about in ancient

Rome? (5)

9 The attendant's not

responsible for this (7) 10 Help found in second half

of A-to-Z? (4)

11 End in minutes – right away

(8)

14 Climbs to a hundred in

auctions (6)

15 Loud insect circling tree (6) 17 Circular journey of horrid

Dorian Gray? Not half

(4,4)

18 Lowest sort of scale for fish

(4)

21 Trouble at cliff after storm

(7)

23 Bother old king buried in

the past? (5)

24 Headline instruction to

open catch? (5,7)

DOWN

19 1 Two companies given a

drink (5)

2 Core cracked in

unattractive china (9) 3 Drink, having opening of

keg made of wood (4) 4 Layabout's shoe (6) 5 See, lambs about to gather

(8)

6 Grandmother comes and

goes (3)

7 Lower clothing? (6)

12 Left Santiago, sadly longing

(9)

13 Close call by stingy girl

(4,4)

14 Vapour flowing round river

current (6)

16 Teacher given poor stream

(6)

19 Sound certain it's by the

sea (5)

20 Man loses heart in empty

boat (4)

22 Remote flying squad was

set up (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Profit from a property sale

(7,5)

8 Approximately (5) 9 Non-attendance (7) 10 Aid (a criminal) (4)

11 End of a railway route (8) 14 Climbs (6)

15 Big, bright (6)

17 Bypass round a town (4,4) 18 Deep male voice (4) 21 Beset, burden (7) 23 Bovver! (5)

24 Advertising leaflet (5,7)

DOWN

1 Bedtime drink (5)

2 Bone china (9)

3 Durable timber (4) 4 Casual shoe (6)

5 Bring or come together (8) 6 Affectionate name for

grandma (3)

7 Breed of dairy cattle (6) 12 Fond remembrance (9) 13 Almost an accident (4,4) 14 Brook (6)

16 Become adept at (6) 19 Coastline (5)

20 Cash paid as security (4) 22 Distant, remote (3)