2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

4. Didn’t lack a place to land the fish (7)

8. Listen somehow to the recruiting officer’s plea? (6)

9. Made a pretence a reality? (7) 10. Go-ahead newspaper article? (6) 11. Spares could be few and far between (6) 12. Almost a hit with the girl next door (4,4) 18. Belief about men in the building (8) 20. This clue should be adequate! (6)

21. I’m given a role to communicate (6) 22. They tell how actions were done (7) 23. Descriptive of a man who can’t settle (6) 24. Soften sausage mash (7)

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1. Drop off or refuse to do so (7)

2. It’s dated even before use (7)

3. The respect in which going up meets the point (6)

5. Two fools in murderous combination (8) 6. Number of towns in S Africa (6)

7. A mark of credit and comfort (6) 13. Sacked, no doubt! (2,3,3)

14. Indeed was at length held up (7) 15. No unwritten law (7)

16. A poem has a point of positive significance (6)

17. Foreign office desk? (6) 19. Something valuable from copper mines (6)