TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Trendy young bird dumps

knight (4)

4 Lodger e.g. producing

nonsense (8)

8 Tree wife left with aunt for

chopping (6)

9 Light in sky or in

atmosphere (6)

10 Glue or hide vase that's

smashed (8)

12 Gave instruction in speech

for tense (4)

13 Bishop collapsed under

load (6)

15 Defeat in Olympic field

event (6)

17 Heaven on earth in walled

enclosure (4)

19 Cruel having done away

with girl? (8)

21 Saw it's rum that's mixed

(6)

22 Tool in church lies broken

(6)

23 Weird tree moss in

Taunton district (8) 24 Man in Gwynedd yawning

(4)

DOWN

2 Firm keeps duck in store

(5)

3 Trick nurse making claim

(7)

4 Little Mark has party on

time (3)

5 Ammo in ogre's path

exploded (9)

6 Mourn headless heron (5) 7 One true falsely getting

there? (2,5)

11 One not bright or amusing

when drunk (9)

14 Cook too little, out before

party (7)

16 Article is penned by male in

discomfort (7)

18 Rumbling from volcano is

extreme (5)

20 Horse taking good man

over rising river (5) 22 About time to see moggy

(3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Stylish (4)

4 Bad poetry (8) 8 Furniture wood (6) 9 Dawn goddess (6) 10 Sticky (8)

12 Tightly drawn (4)

13 Onus (6)

15 Carpentry tool (6) 17 Biblical garden (4) 19 Hard-hearted (8) 21 Platitude (6)

22 Shape wood or stone (6) 23 English county (8) 24 Whirling current (4)

DOWN

2 Valuables kept (5) 3 Struggle or compete (7) 4 Speck (3) 5 Small cannon balls (9) 6 White marsh wader (5) 7 In transit (2,5) 11 Simpleton (9)

14 Cook inadequately (7) 16 Uneasiness (7) 18 Clamour (5)

20 Avenger John (5) 22 Feline (3)