TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Leave intellectual relating

to division (12)

9 Deduce that queen has

left main ferry (5) 10 Reading article badly (7) 11 Laird can strangely become

an important clergyman (8) 12 Vessels knocked over,

break (4)

14 Born lazy, I dispensed with

sharp tool (6)

15 Frank is able to, and proved

it! (6)

18 Idiot to continue? (4) 20 Irregular integral shape (8) 23 Leader abandons most harsh mountain (7)

24 Fruit round, as it happens (5) 25 Fifth girl with cat performing in red, amber or green? (7,5)

DOWN

2 Some men, for centuries,

administer vigorously (7) 3 Lady trio performing with

skill (8)

4 Scottish material, something black and brown (6)

5 Without beginning, attain

individually (4)

6 Giant has to stretch, we

hear (5)

7 Play around in top frog's home? (4,3)

8 Element of some jazz in

clarinettist (4)

13 Pasta of a Romanic sort? (8) 14 Abandon Conservative in

gentle reshuffle (7) 16 Around swirling fog, there's

meal for shark (7)

17 Cold region, cold in lorry (6) 19 Greek character in Rome,

Ganymede (5)

21 Odd number won't begin to

be the opposite! (4) 22 Meat or grouse? (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Of a particular division in an

organisation (12) 9 Conclude (5)

10 Classical music

performance (7) 11 High-ranking RC priest (8) 12 Make a brisk, sharp,

cracking sound (4)

14 Sharp instrument for

sewing (6)

15 Forthright, outspoken (6) 18 Continue speaking after a

pause (2,2)

20 Geometrical figure (8) 23 Highest mountain in the

Himalayas (7)

24 Small oval bitter fruit (5) 25 Red, amber or green? (7,5)

DOWN

2 Carry out (the law) (7) 3 Deftly (8)

4 Check fabric (6)

5 All singularly (4)

6 In Greek mythology, a child

of Uranus and Gaia (5) 7 Floating leaf of an aquatic

plant (4,3) 8 Bluish-white metallic

element (4)

13 Tubular pasta (8)

14 Allow to decay (7) 16 Member of the shark family (7) 17 Area round the North Pole (6) 19 Final Greek letter (5)

21 All square (4)

22 Brawn (4)