2-Speed Crossword

QUICK CLUES Across

7. Sell (6) 8. Boy’s title (6) 10. European (7) 11. Wharves (5) 12. Toddlers (4) 13. Birds (5) 17. Fraction (5) 18. Exist (4) 22. Reduce (5) 23. Let go (7) 24. Compelled (6) 25. Deed (6)

Down

1. Encourage (7) 2. Runner (7) 3. Metal strands (5) 4. Touching down (7) 5. Thin branch (5) 6. Traverse (5) 9. Choosers (9) 14. Funeral cars (7) 15. Huge (7) 16. House’s land (7) 19. Fissure (5) 20. Informed (5) 21. Timepiece (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

7. Pass on a story about a beastly end (6)

8 & 21Dn. This will regulate all mechanisms at the same time (6-5)

10 & 6Dn. The sort of emblem to make an islander annoyed (7,5) 11. Cuts off loading areas... (5) 12. ...to back-street children (4) 13. More than one bird wheels around, we hear (5) 17. The one to be decimated (5)

18 & 3Dn. Animated telegrams will give people shocks! (4,5) 22. One making bovine noises is more depressed (5) 23. Free to hire out again (7)

24 & 4Dn. Compulsory grounding (6,7) 25. Fighting will cause a lawsuit (6)

Down

1. Start a company and upgrade the staff (7) 2. He should be fit to revise the tale (7) 3. See 18 Across 4. See 24 Across 5. Glue a thin piece of wood (5) 6. See 10 Across 9. As southern voters they prefer one to another (9) 14. They provide transport for those who are late (7) 15. It’s so big I can’t be confused about it (7) 16. It needs me to reorganise the estate (7) 19. Split caused when a hundred deserted (5) 20. Knowing a conflict will come to the East (5) 21. See 8 Across