Financial Mail and Business Day

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Former currency in Europe

set aside (6)

4 Basic item in centrefold? (6) 9 Dance can go wrong (5) 10 Newsreader's assistant, car

with character, we hear? (7) 11 Always set out for

mountain (7)

12 Bottle never broken (5) 13 In journey to work, can I

possibly talk? (11)

18 Sikh headwear leader

removed in the town (5) 20 Painter coming in over me,

erratically (7) 22 Keen on worker, that's

sweet (7)

23 Cornish food gone • Ending

in surrey (5)

24 Egyptian leader in sultana's

service (6)

25 Note from singer heard (6)

DOWN

1 Parcel with a lot of money! (6) 2 Moaners wrecked Italian

resort (3,4)

3 First of tablets to relieve

rib (5)

5 Film – act in it, violently (7) 6 Horse in summary, rearing

up (5)

7 Sports team appears in

novel event (6)

8 Ultimate choice from nicest

govt., a disaster! (7,4) 14 Authority also preserved

by friend (7)

15 Crime motive evident after

little time (7)

16 Bird pantin'! (6)

17 Beam comes in through

request to God (6)

19 More money working in

public transport (5)

21 Plant almost keeps up

money in India (5)

COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Old Spanish currency (6) 4 Page fastener (6)

9 Dance involving a line of

people (5)

10 Electronic prompting

device (7)

11 2015 Keira Knightley film

(7)

12 Audacity (5)

13 Convey, transmit (11) 18 Belonging to a city (5) 20 Dutch painter of <i>Girl

with a Pearl Earring</i> (7) 22 Soft sweet (7)

23 Cornish dish (5)

24 1950s Egyptian prime

minister and president (6) 25 Informal name for a

banknote (6) DOWN 1 Bundle (6)

2 Resort on the Italian

Riviera (3,4) 3 Irritate playfully (5) 5 1912 disaster liner (7) 6 Horse trained to run at a

certain gait (5)

7 Odd number (6) 8 Chairperson's deciding

opinion (7,4) 14 Authority (7)

15 Act of betrayal (7) 16 Large-billed seabird (6) 17 Plea to God (6)

19 Added incentive (5) 21 Currency unit of India (5)

THE BOTTOM LINE

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