2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. Get into main tent in disguise - to see the circus? (13) 8. Old ones are immortal though gradually disappearing, they say (8) 9. Employed in Lulu’s education (4) 10. A meal to take out? (6) 12. The sound of leaves displaying autumn colour (6) 14. By which may be a good place for 10 (6) 16. Conditioning the soil or gathering fruit under the lindens? (6) 18. Arthur Duckworth’s tongue (4) 20. Added and finally guided the whole (8) 22. Attractive and quietly taking back (13)

Down

1. Is he in favour of joining up? (8) 2. Exactly right. The display is in - done wrong! (4,2) 3. Last year’s bit of eye trouble (4) 4. Merlin in rags goes round the street as a musician (8) 5. Our involvement in morning’s affairs (6) 6. The start of many a nursery tale (4) 11. Comes to a doctor in a deep sleep (8) 13. Do they throw light on the Scots tribe who lost their leader to the birds? (8) 15. Furnishes with oriental epigrams (6) 17. Interfere with the holy one at the end of the jetty (6) 19. Uncommon turn of the end (4) 21. There are fifteen of them to every three feet! (4)