2-Speed Crossword

Across 1. Elegant employee has a few (8) 5. Unsuitable 21 for plum pie! (4) 9. Point to point’s beginning - get the point? (4) Evergreen is nothing to Hero’s lover (8) He was tired, not cut up and about (5) Tells where the schoolchildren may be found (7) They may ask, confusedly: “To rat or resign?” (13) Mrs. Swan, labelled, with five sides (8) Proverbially it should be on all the signposts (4) Region, or farm vehicle (7) Do drag us all back, sweetheart! (5) It’s a worry when boy is artless (4) Bits and pieces for funny people going to back street (8) 10. 11. 12.

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20. 21. 22. 23. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Stimulus (7) Weight (7) Responds (6) Anguish (7) Vestige (7)

Down 2. It can be a strain, becoming a mechanic (7) 3. Dispossess from the car ride round East Pakistan’s capital (7) More than just red at the end - much more! (13) To suffer, but certainly not to overcome! (7) Stirs up trouble for the over-fastidious (7) Strange affair of the palm leaves (6) Momentum with which favourite introduces himself to us (7) A weighty matter aboard (7) Has reciprocal effect or maybe caters for change (6) It’s agony to 6! (7) It’s left over to preach noisily around confused men (7) 4.

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16. 17. SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD: Across: 7 Retort; 8 Gospel; 10 Flatter; 11 Amiss; 12 Nous; 13 Spell; 17 Amuse; 18 Main; 22 Boast; 23 Offence; 24 Desert; 25 Hearts. Down: 1 Profane; 2 Stratum; 3 Grate; 4 Notable; 5 Split; 6 Clash; 9 Grapeshot; 14 Amatory; 15 Manners; 16 Intense; 19 Abode; 20 Marsh; 21 Offer.