2-Speed Crossword

Choose either the quick or cryptic clues – answers are the same.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. Green or black fruit (5)

8. Distribute information for the press? (4-3)

9. He’ll make enquiries if one is unusually late (7)

10. Wrong way to achieve a take-over (5) 12. Solemnly declare as almost cut-rate (10) 15. Improve his disposition with an opposite result (10)

18. Not all separate (5)

19. Not to agree to a full distribution (4,3) 21. He’s at liberty to be a privileged citizen (7) 22. Half the operations performed in the theatre (5)

Down

1. Harmony in a musical instrument (10)

2. They falsify their accounts (5)

3. Observed and understood (4)

4. Expense of electrical supply (6)

5. They’re used by those wishing to take cover (8)

6. Turns up in chilly surroundings, but is wellliked (7)

11. Now is the time to be generous (7,3)

13. Make minute economies? (4,4)

14. Clothes appear different when over fifty (7) 16. Clarify matters (6)

17. Outmoded description of St. Peters, for example (5)

20. Ring the swimming bath up (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

7. Fruit (5)

8. Free sample (4-3)

9. Death investigator (7) 10. Appropriate (5) 12. Declare (10) 15. Deprive (10) 18. Separate (5)

19. Leave a parade (4,3)

21. Citizen (7)

22. Musical drama (5) Down 1. Instrument (10) 2. Fibbers (5) 3. Perceived (4) 4. Cost (6) 5. Guarantors (8) 6. Widely favoured (7) 11. Current (7,3)

13. Get something done quicker (4,4) 14. Dress (7)

16. Purify (6) 17. Cupolated (5) 20. Round shape (4)

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 1 Copyright; 8 Cox; 9 Grizzly bear; 11 Retorts; 12 Lawns; 13 Straws; 15 Usurer; 17 April; 18 Cleaves; 20 Train bearer; 22 Ewe; 23 Easy terms.

Down: 2 Oar; 3 Razor; 4 Gayest; 5 Trellis; 6 Screwdriver; 7 Exposures; 10 Interpreter; 11 Restarted; 14 Welfare; 16 Scenes; 19 Erect; 21 Elm.