The Sun – Two Speed – Jul 11 2018

Clues	Answers
49th state	ALASKA
Amphibian	FROG
Animated	ALIVE
Assembly room	CHAMBER
Barren	STERILE
Boy accepts one put down	LAID
Break along the grain	SPLIT
Burnt sugar	CARAMEL
Carefully attentive	VIGILANT
Casual chat	NATTER
Church ceremony	SERVICE
Conservative church stopping fool’s entry	ACCESS
Consideration	CARE
Contemptuous look	SNEER
Decapitated	BEHEADED
Driving force	THRUST
European leader in bed like Louis XVI?	BEHEADED
Farm building	BARN
Glue	CEMENT
Graduate finds radon in farm store	BARN
Hold dear	TREASURE
Hostility	AGGRO
Illegible script	SCRAWL
Installed, as carpet	LAID
Joiner employed in building industry	CEMENT
Knight interrupting prophet shows disdain	SNEER

Clues	Answers
Large shop	EMPORIUM
Leave Croatian port	SPLIT
Lester worked to keep one germ-free	STERILE
Like hard wood	ASH
Ogre round lake after six is watchful	VIGILANT
Oil from car black until changed	LUBRICANT
Oil or grease	LUBRICANT
Permission to enter	ACCESS
Push hard to break confidence	THRUST
Regularly target a certain prize	TREASURE
Room to keep horse in Sussex resort	CHAMBER
Scribble second slow movement	SCRAWL
Scruffy men inwardly turning to passion	moth-eaten
Silly daughter going behind	AFT
Small jumper designed for golf	FROG
Spirited quartet into beer	ALIVE
Start of court proceedings?	SERVICE
Store memoir up in novel form	EMPORIUM
Sweet artist devoured by animal	CARAMEL
Threadbare	moth-eaten
Towards the stern	AFT
Tree	ASH
Trouble: wrecked Argo ships gallons	AGGRO
Twit’s edging in near explosive gas	NATTER
Unfortunately a king turned up in state	ALASKA
Vehicle on route at last to give hoot	CARE