2-Speed Crossword

Choose either the quick or cryptic clues - answers are the same.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Show what a model will do after an oriental kiss (6)

4. Reels back as warships appear (6) 9. Upset the apple-cart - darn, it’s all in (4,3,6) 10. Returns paler from the South-East - a turn for the worse? (7)

11. Bit of an act observed, we hear (5) 12. Rush back to see what lies far beneath the ocean waves (5)

14. Join together - yet almost unfasten! (5) 18. The kind of crust found only on the best pies? (5)

19. Inside, where the old may be young (2,5) 21. Hasty action - I’m for it, to my dismay! (13) 22. Most uncommon artist in front of the others (6)

23. Objects to upset nights (6)

Down

1. Territorial possessions of a politician in Ireland (6)

2. Raging king of the insect world? (6,7) 3. Far from blunt kind of note (5)

5. Goes ahead - with reins attached? (5,2) 6. An instrumentalist has a part in this arrangement, not a chorister (13)

7. A fighting man, I go to join up (6)

8. It delivers milk in Huddersfield (5) 13. Merry gatherings of politicians? (7) 15. Many a one has been seen by the elderly (6)

16. I sleep standing up on this end of the couch in fear (5)

17. Throws rocks at good man with honest heart (6)

20. Wasteland and the shrub it supports (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Reveal (6) 4. Sailing vessels (6) 9. Essential ingredient (4,3,6) 10. Return of ill health (7)

11. Setting (5) 12. The sea (5) 14. Combine (5) 18. Higher (5) 19. Fundamentally (2,5) 21. Humiliation (13) 22. Most unusual (6) 23. Articles (6)

Down

1. Realm (6) 2. Butterfly (6,7) 3. Acute (5) 5. Lures (5,2) 6. Muscial arrangement (13) 7. Bond (6) 8. Mammary gland (5) 13. Celebrations (7) 15. Season (6) 16. Anxiety (5) 17. Pebbles (6) 20. Moor (5)