The Sun – Two Speed – Mar 30 2018

Clues	Answers
Act	PRETEND
An old calculator can make a graduate swear endlessly	ABACUS
Appearances	ASPECTS
Batman’s friend	ROBIN
Bedding plant	LOBELIA
Bird returns gold to garbage can	ROBIN
Brewing agent	YEAST
Cat, for example, it is small in France	PETIT
Christmas	YULETIDE
Chronicle	NARRATE
CID’s broken record	DISC
Circular plate	DISC
Clumsily rid apron of small blob of water	RAINDROP
Complained	WHINED
Complained about being plied with Chardonnay, we were told	WHINED
Counting frame	ABACUS
Crestfallen	SAD
Cretan labyrinth monster	MINOTAUR
Cross when trapped by inferior monster	MINOTAUR
Do nothing	IDLE
Fat	CORPULENT
Floor cleaner	MOP
Free time	LEISURE
French word meaning ‘little’	PETIT
Gash	SLIT
God of love	CUPID
Hands out to skip through mountains	DOLOMITES
Italian mountains	DOLOMITES

Clues	Answers
Keel over	CAPSIZE
Keel over at hat dimension	CAPSIZE
Large cult prone to change	CORPULENT
Lay claim before nurse	PRETEND
Local contest	DERBY
Loudly kissed buffoon’s exterior features	ASPECTS
Match between two local teams in English city	DERBY
Mildew	MOULD
Much obliged!	THANKYOU
Narrow opening to separate when penniless	SLIT
Not working at being lazy?	IDLE
Oil able to form a flower	LOBELIA
Profession	CAREER
Quick kiss	PECK
Quickly bite quantity of grain	PECK
Recreation that is organised with rules	LEISURE
Rushed back with speed to give an account	NARRATE
Shape of university in Welsh town	MOULD
Some of the crusaders are not happy	SAD
Some sodium opened for cleaner	MOP
Spanish city	TOLEDO
Spanish city also drawn in	TOLEDO
Speed towards one’s vocation	CAREER
Spot of drizzle	RAINDROP
Spy’s last point, raising agent	YEAST
Tissue brought in to university, much obliged	THANKYOU
Up amongst detectives he was armed with a bow	CUPID
We hear you’ll have new diet for festive season	YULETIDE