2-Speed Crossword

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

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Loud and licentious, yet perfect (8) 5. Overtake father on ship (4) 9. An affirmative answer from those in favour (4) 10. Keep up chief antitype (8) 11. Tree certainly not raised in a nursery? (5) 12. He specialises in put-up jobs (7) 13. How interest is received from the serial writer (2,11) 18. Bring woman to earth: she has rent to collect (8) 19. As used by the painter to reduce friction? (4) 20. Give me back a pair to take in my arms (7) 21. Got sack kindled (5) 22. Bound to have had the same score (4) 23. No punishment for one politician who wants undivided state (8)

Down

2. Toy with ally breaking fidelity (7) 3. We take on grim occidental (7) 4. Great actor and directors smile radiantly on right side of ship (9,4) 6. Leave a flat strip in position (7) 7. Such ladies could give reasons (7) 8. Irresolute in company (6) 13. The aged are amongst the elite and the most self-reliant (7) 14. I belong to disorderly base (7) 15. Val is caught out in wickedness in the woods (6) 16. Proposal from the east evokes strong feeling (7) 17. The highest everybody can get in the examination (7)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Perfect (8) 5. Move by (4) 9. Affirmative voters (4) 10. Insist (8) 11. Senior (5) 12. Construction worker (7) 13. In portions (2,11) 18. Lodging house owner (8) 19. Lubricants (4) 20. Hug (7) 21. Shot (5) 22. Drawn (4) 23. Exemption from punishment (8)

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2. Faithfulness (7) 3. Cowboy film (7) 4. Part of ship’s structure (9,4) 6. Desert (7) 7. Spanish women (7) 8. Weak (6) 13. Most confident (7) 14. Despicable (7) 15. Woodland spirit (6) 16. Feeling (7) 17. Highest (7)