2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Objects of ridicule, but not to marksmen (5)

4. Musical swindler? (7)

8. His wife will be late (7)

9. Jargon used in various languages (5)

10. This month in Westminster (4)

11. Not a mind prepared to be masterful (8)

13. Knot sailors try to avoid (4)

14. Desert one’s post, though left in charge? (4)

16. It’s not right having more surplus (4,4)

17. A number with deposit money (4)

20. Often nuisances are a source of boredom (5)

Get together about a thousand odd police (7)

Confused Danes on board showing melancholy (7)

I hurried outside and collected private information (5) 21. 22. 23. Down

1. Leisure centres (7,6)

2. Rise and fall of seas (5) Stitched (4) Litter of piglets (6) Follower (8) Loss (7)

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19. All the way (5,2,3,3) Bleaching chemical (8) Genteel (7) Responds (6) Legal plea (5) Prophet (4)

Down

1. Where one may hear pins drop? (7,6)

2. Naturally they have their ups and downs (5)

3. Joined four quarters (4)

4. Small pigs making a distant noise (6)

5. Follower lacking in discipline (8)

6. A breach of security (7)

7. A conservative all one’s life? (5,2,3,3)

12. It may make a girl lightheaded (8)

13. Cultured and splendid in crimson (7)

15. Responds by breaking up crates (6)

18. Some material I bid for was not there, it’s said (5)

A doctor’s name (4) 19.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 3 Impassive; 8 Look; 9 Paralysed; 10 Warden; 11 Revel; 14 Agree; 15 Sift; 16 Ruffs; 18 Poop; 20 Wheel; 21 Manse; 24 Senior; 25 Foresight; 26 Veto; 27 Beats time. Down: 1 Blowlamps; 2 Courtroom; 4 Mean; 5 Aware; 6 Styles; 7 View; 9 Peter; 11 Rifle; 12 Lifelines; 13 Stillroom; 17 Sweet; 19 Patent; 22 Shift; 23 Moke; 24 Sham.