2-Speed Crossword
Choose either the quick or cryptic clues - answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across 1. Instrumental in enjoying good health, comparatively speaking? (3,2,1,6) 7. Pale and portable, possibly... (5) 8. ...unlike this, grand as it may be (5) 9. Part of a discontinued container (3) 10. Anticipate everyone following the wood (9) 11. An excellent meal - or just a sandwich filler? (6) 12. Crept along surreptitiously after the burglary (6) 15. Made one’s mark, having been forced into service (9) 17. Passenger on wrong train appears to be a bit of one! (3) 18. Part of a long poem to follow 9’s equivalent (5) 19. What the thief did, inversely speaking, to obtain a mass of gold, perhaps (5) 21. Peripatetic supporter? (7-5)
Down 1. ‘Field of Battle’ is a single article found at beginning of the book (12) 2. Sink down and back 20 (3) 3. We never catch up with it! (6) 4. Left side opted to change (9) 5. Public walk back with a South American animal (5) 6. Cattle on wheels - in the goods yard? (7-5) 7. Vessel found in areas where Nile waters flow back (5) 10. Outline to contrive employment (9) 13. When said, it is said to be repaired the most speedily (5) 14. Make over like an emblem (6) 16. Animal to procure, so to speak (5) 20. Empty (but explosive?) talk (3)
QUICK CLUES
Across 1. Healthy (3,2,1,6) 7. Not heavy (5) 8. Instrument (5) 9. Can (3) 10. Delay (9) 11. Extend (6) 12. Taken illegally (6) 15. Moved (9) 17. Donkey (3) 18. Poetical division (5) 19. Moulded metal piece (5) 21. Cane (7-5)
Down 1. Title page illustration (12) 2. Droop (3) 3. Time to come (6) 4. Set down (9) 5. Mammal (5) 6. Railway cars (7-5) 7. Cruise ship (5) 10. Structure (9) 13. Minimum (5) 14. Allot (6) 16. Large mammal (5) 20. Fuel (3)
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:
Across: 4 Asunder; 8 Occurs; 9 Probity; 10 Tennis; 11 Nudity; 12 Farthing; 18 Straying; 20 Retort; 21 Finish; 22 Furlong; 23 Canada; 24 Dead-set. Down: 1 Mortify; 2 Scenery; 3 Wraith; 5 Stranger; 6 Nobody; 7 Estate; 13 Instance; 14 Minimal; 15 Egghead; 16 Refuse; 17 Tolled; 19 Animal.