TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Wine store vendor

announced (6)

4 Person with a job tops

student (6)

7 Attractive quality of Mark

steaming bananas (9) 9 Article to headmaster?

Not us! (4)

10 Parent has two personal

assistants (4)

11 Part of circle (arc) is

transparent (5)

13 Tamper with award, by the

sound of it (6)

14 'It's a season', one adds? (6) 15 A trail on hill (6)

17 He'd beer inside, made

better (6)

19 Almost concurred it's a

deadly sin (5)

20 Diminish evil by king (4) 22 Need sort of paradise (4) 23 Consumed with anger at

first, but restrained (9) 24 Take livestock from Ulster,

perhaps (6)

25 Husky, four-legged animal,

we hear (6)

DOWN

1 Usual practice for copper to

write up car safety tests (6) 2 Man is Member of

Parliament (4)

3 Irritate right joint (6) 4 Accessories are old and

mostly rubbish (6) 5 File snake under 'R' (4) 6 Mend about two (6)

7 Tend manic, mad beggar (9) 8 Made out unusual alarm

enjoyed at breakfast time (9) 11 Hold on to cold fish (5) 12 Governed by the fourth

regulation? (5)

15 Plans were found to contain

the reply (6)

16 Tour with the French three

times (6)

17 Fireplace where there's hard

soil (6)

18 Give charitably to Dean,

oddly (6)

21 Part of England contributes

to chicken tikka (4) 22 Volcano found in Vietnam (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Basement (6) 4 Breadwinner (6)

7 Allure (9)

9 Those people (4) 10 Affectionate term for

father (4)

11 Easily understood (5) 13 Butt in (6)

14 Season after spring (6) 15 Acclivity (6)

17 Cured (6)

19 Avarice (5)

20 Basin (4)

22 Biblical garden (4) 23 Abstemious (9) 24 Gentle crackly sound (6) 25 Croaky (6)

DOWN

1 Habit (6)

2 Noel Gallagher's brother (4) 3 Cause lasting bitterness (6) 4 Accessories (6)

5 Coarse file (4)

6 Fix (6) 7 Beggar (9)

8 Breakfast jam (9) 11 Adhere (to) (5) 12 Controlled (5) 15 Rejoinder (6)

16 Multiply by three (6) 17 Part of a fireplace (6) 18 Give (6)

21 Canterbury's county (4) 22 Active volcano in eastern

Sicily (4)