2-Speed Crossword

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Erotic dancers (12) 7. Foodstuff (5) 8. Inclusive (3-2) 9. Vegetable (3) 10. Shells (9) 11. Inappropriate moment (2,4) 12. Threefold (6) 15. The study of planets (9) 17. Help (3) 18. Girl’s name (5) 19. Automaton (5) 21. Poisonous gas (12)

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1. Staying elsewhere (8,4) 2. Pastry dish (3) 3. Shrubs (6) 4. Groom’s celebration (4,5) 5. Old object (5) 6. Unclimbable (12) 7. Brag (5) 10. Widespread tree variety (6,3) 13. Set to grow (5) 14. Horse enclosure (6) 16. Dance (5) 20. Farewell (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Press artiste to reform saucy performers? (12) 7. Brought up, we hear, from the bakery (5) 8. The kind of wrestling in which the spectators climb into the ring, too? (3-2) 9. That part of the peach that is a little green? (3) 10. Shells cars that come round quickly (9) 11. What the busy man says he has! (2,4) 12. Three part journey to the beginnings of Lake Erie (6) 15. Science affected when star explodes, moon breaks up and the end of Mercury is seen (9) 17. Assistance given in return by Indian (3) 18. That is, she gets it in the end (5) 19. Men of metal right about tramp losing his head (5) 21. Stiff start for a disinfectant finishing in a London park (12)

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1. Not coming - organising a road block perhaps? (8,4) 2. Printer’s mixture of Greek and English letters (3) 3. Trees that are no longer saplings! (6) 4. Gathering of animals an all-male do (4,5) 5. An old thing, largely derelict (5) 6. Clean a bus end? Not that way - it’s impossible to get up there! (12) 7. A wild stab - ring in and claim (5) 10. Not a rare species - Ulmus Vulgaris? (6,3) 13. It comes out of the ground and works (5) 14. There’s a giant of a bird up where the horses are! (6) 16. Dance of the little thing that comes up from nothing and bites (5) 20. Be seeing you among the baby elephants! (3)