TAKE A BREAK
TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
8 Girl quietly will give a
speech and disappear (9) 9 Allies conceal deception (3) 10 Wonky studs in those
without clothes (7) 11 Drug, not one for bird (5) 12 Rocky outcrop found in
history (3)
14 Former clergyman,
outwardly devout (8) 17 Idly puts 'out of order',
without thinking (8) 19 Gamble with this, and
perish! (3)
21 Checks rules, we hear (5) 23 Religious leader is only
after meatball (7)
26 Some recipient gets baked
dish (3)
27 In glue, so financially, in a
sticky situation? (9)
DOWN
1 Sent up a mad cartoon
strip (7)
2 Stick with first conjunction (4) 3 Manager sobs wildly (4) 4 Trouble arising when man
embraces flighty lass (6) 5 Fit together in same shed (4) 6 Versatile, nothing square? (3-5) 7 Small amount of money for
the girl (5) 13 Servant holding fee (8) 14 Sloppy food, either way (3) 15 I see – it sounds cold (3) 16 Figure like two, perhaps, in
pigpen (7)
18 Partly endures some
coercion (6)
20 Complain when good and
ready (5)
22 Arouse strong feeling in western half of Scottish town (4)
24 Single person, by the
sound of it (4)
25 Frank has nothing for
writer (4)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
8 Change from liquid to
vapour (9)
9 Be untruthful (3) 10 People who go about
naked (7)
11 Fish-eating bird (5)
12 Bare rocky hill (3)
14 Before in time or order (8) 17 In a daft way (8)
19 Breathe one's last (3) 21 Horse-riding straps (5) 23 Fried breaded meatball (7) 26 Meat or fruit in pastry (3) 27 Bankrupt (9)
DOWN
1 Cartoon strip featauring
Charlie Brown and Snoopy (7) 2 Conjurer's stick (4)
3 Chief in the workplace (4) 4 Annoying problem (6)
5 Be co-ordinated,
harmonise (4) 6 Complete (3-5)
7 British coin (5)
13 Dental appliance used to
keep teeth straight (8) 14 Mush (3)
15 Bitterly cold (3)
16 Half of 140 (7) 18 (Under) constraint (6) 20 Complaint (5) 22 Agitate (4)
24 Bottom of a shoe (4) 25 Ajar (4)
THE BOTTOM LINE
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