Financial Mail and Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 Enraged Eve rang one to

settle score (7)

9 Hot rock on radio for little

six-footer? (5) 10 Trademark of comics Jo

and Russell? (5)

11 Bidding millions, man

admitted to hoax (7) 12 This boat can, crossing a

river (9)

14 False statement one seen

in Facebook? (3) 16 Monarch entertains a

listener (3)

17 Fabric made with inner coil

(9)

19 Stop female artist wearing

check (7)

21 Old number in ragtime

there (5)

22 Uniform colour? (5)

23 The fish that sinks beneath

the waves? (7)

DOWN

1 Alfresco meal: be eating

rotten EU crab? (8) 2 Bottle in crate with end

smashed (8)

3 Old section in Heritage

Dictionary (4) 4 Shopkeeper Roger drunk

outside clubs (6) 5 Sweetheart and soldier

making music (8)

6 Section in stadium not

new (4)

7 Completely unlocked? (4) 13 Venomous snake in

footwear (8)

14 Spook correct to enter bog

(8)

15 Veg cooked better loves to

be eaten (8)

18 I get in drunk and start fire

(6)

19 Don Juan to gather leaves

(4)

20 Admirer eating large pie

(4)

21 Nobleman mostly primitive

(4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

8 Steed, Purdey or Gambit

(7)

9 Immature insect (5) 10 Label (5)

11 Order (7)

12 Twin-hulled craft (9) 14 Untruth (3)

16 Corn spike (3)

17 Hooped petticoat (9) 19 Chorus (7)

21 Former anaesthetic (5) 22 Military shade (5) 23 Submarine weapon (7)

DOWN

1 Outdoor grill (8) 2 Carafe (8) 3 Ancient (4) 4 Food retailer (6) 5 Gypsy dance (8) 6 Neighbourhood (4) 7 Hairless (4)

13 Soft leather shoe (8) 14 Scare (8)

15 Salad vegetable (8) 18 Set alight (6) 19 Gardening implement (4) 20 Open tart (4)

21 British peer (4)

THE BOTTOM LINE

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