Gorey Guardian

2-Speed Crossword

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

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QUICK CLUES

Across 7. Tree fibre (5) 8. Tasks (7) 9. Primitive human (7) 10. Edge (5) 12. Beggars (10) 15. Ordered (10) 18. Relative (5) 19. Provoked (7) 21. Of the side (7) 22. Home (5) Down 1. Debate (10) 2. Ladder rung (5) 3. Ray (4) 4. Shed (4-2) 5. Region (8) 6. Knotted (7) 11. Area of Asia (4,6) 13. Vehicle-carrier (3,5) 14. Facets (7) 16. Cool (6) 17. Bend (5) 20. Stuff (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across7. Is fibrous and is let round (5) 8. Slips round and gives messages (7) 9. Look out, old boy! Your ancestor? (7) 10. Churchman cut off at the border (5) 12. They cadge, and get sore cursing. I’m not in it (10) 15. Stint cured as taught (10) 18. Note in neat relationsh­ip (5) 19. Inn seen, apparently, all stirred up (7) 21. The French staggered later to the side (7) 22. Stay in this dwelling (5) Down 1. A talk about Sid’s cousin? (10) 2. Use a vest to break the cask (5) 3. Shine on timber (4) 4. It’s no tale about the outhouse (4-2) 5. The French state (8) 6. Called up and went ahead with a twist (7) 11. Where to get teas inside? (4-6) 13. One transporte­r - it’s second carrying the first many times (3,5) 14. With caps set at different angles (7) 16. Many are bumpy and rather cold (6) 17. Lower oneself in front of the house (5) 20. Hundred sheep pack tight (4)

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 1 Striptease­rs; 7 Bread; 8 All-in; 9 Pea; 10 Carapaces; 11 No time; 12 Triple; 15 Astronomy; 17 Aid; 18 Annie; 19 Robot; 21 Formaldehy­de. Down: 1 Stopping away; 2 Pie; 3 Elders; 4 Stag party; 5 Relic; 6 Unascendab­le; 7 Boast; 10 Common elm; 13 Plant; 14 Corral; 16 Tango; 20 Bye.

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