2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

6. Everybody agreed and quietened down (7)

It may be used to obtain a purchase (5) Animal with a gentle murmur (5) Haggle for profit on beer sales (7) Feel trained to be submissive (11) Handy aid in solving crime (11)

Not a subject put on in advance (7) Affixed in an unnatural way (3,2) Range of a policeman in the South-East (5)

Ends the act (7) 7. 9. 10. 12. 14. 18. 19. 21.

22.

Down

1. Smooth look about a number (5)

2. Blue Viennese flower (6)

3. An old agreement (3)

4. A matter of some gravity (6)

5. Point wrongly claimed (7)

8. Life-lines? (7)

11. What Luther refused to do about a religious pamphlet (7)

Drastic solution to a union dispute (7) Clutches twigs (6)

Ill feeling (6)

Cast down (5)

Athletes get it before they go (3) 13. 15. 16. 17. 20.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 1 Subsection; 7 Astir; 8 Tapster; 10 Castaway; 11 Rood; 13 Matins; 15 Writhe; 17 Keen; 18 Labourer; 21 Rat-race; 22 Alien; 23 Dermatitis. Down: 1 Sates; 2 Bargains; 3 Entrap; 4 Type; 5 Outpost; 6 Match-maker; 9 Red herring; 12 Arrogant; 14 Theatre; 16 Latent; 19 Rails; 20 Farm.