TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Liverpudlian songstress not well in California (5)

4 Aussie banker bold with large investment (7)

8 Universal anger about doctor's offence (7)

9 Father eating bird finds bone (5)

10 Parents framing girl in grand picture (8)

12 Advantage where bushy boundary has front clipped (4)

14 Food mum fed to Dorothy's dog (6)

15 Asleep at sea bringing delight (6)

18 Watch pressure escape slowly (4)

19 Turn game possibly causing row (8)

21 Correlation shown where moon follows rodent (5)

22 Stomach change of name and d.o.b. (7)

24 Musicians given time to dress (7)

25 Scoundrel smudges rouge (5)

DOWN

1 Something that's eaten MP in unstable truce (7)

2 High ball takes some clobbering (3)

3 Expedition to the French city goes round river (8)

4 Ambitions: Stevie Nicks's song (6)

5 Whole bunch in Kon-Tiki say (4)

6 Present time bad to shackle news providers (9)

7 Swallow quickly seen in canyon (5)

11 Stand-off in centre of political power (6,3)

13 Current endlessly beneath swimmer (8)

16 Agreement to put new tent in east twice (7)

17 Covered passage having a twisted cedar (6)

18 Rook in bush, possibly hydrangea (5)

20 Roman habit to have Gerunda emptied (4)

23 Rob shilling from complacent chump (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Singer Ms Black (5) 4 Sweetheart (7) 8 Displeasure (7) 9 Skeleton part (5) 10 Wide vista (8) 12 Border (4)

14 Red fruit (6)

15 Gratify or gladden (6) 18 Ooze (4)

19 Heated discussion (8) 21 Proportion (5) 22 Midriff (7)

24 Wound winding (7) 25 Villain (5)

DOWN

1 Griddle cake (7) 2 Tennis stroke (3) 3 Eagerness (8) 4 Reveries (6) 5 Floating platform (4) 6 Instant (9)

7 Narrow ravine (5) 11 PM's house (6,3) 13 Struggle (8) 16 Diplomatic accord (7) 17 Colonnade (6) 18 Woody plant (5) 20 Ancient garment (4) 23 Coffee cup (3)