TWO SPEED CROSSWORD
Quick Clues ACROSS
3 Musician (9) 8 Drama (4) 9 Slide-show instrument (9) 10 Give up work (6) 11 Yields (5) 14 Hackneyed (5) 15 Girl’s name (4) 16 Weapon (5) 18 Above (4) 20 Not married (5) 21 Stratagems (5) 24 Central American country (6) 25 Revolve (4,5) 26 Reverberate (4) 27 Fruit plants (4-5)
DOWN
1 Surgical procedure (9) 2 Casual worker (4-5) 4 Unusual (4) 5 Significant (5) 6 Elude (6) 7 Public school (4) 9 Noses (5) 11 Angry (5) 12 Stately walk (4,5) 13 Musical vehicle (4-5) 17 Old coin (5) 19 Athlete (6) 22 Smouldering piece of fuel (5) 23 Old instrument (4) 24 Wholesome (4)
Cryptic Clues ACROSS
3 Elephant in the orchestra! (9) 8 See 16 9 One who promotes a piece of film apparatus (9) 10 Don’t work any longer - go to bed (6) 11 Cuts off the total quantities produced (5) 14 Unoriginal ceremony after tea (5) 15 The girl is seen in Chapel Lane (4)
16 & 8Ac Dramatic entertainment for fencers! (5-4) 18 Surplus no longer in being (4) 20 Yet to be matched (5) 21 Right practices indulge in by tricksters (5) 24 Capital cover needed for a canal (6) 25 Face the other way to influence the result of a fight (4,5) 26 Sound return (4) 27 Fruit producers - a couple of them, we hear (4-5)
DOWN
1 See 5 Down 2 Piece-worker? (4-5) 4 Difficult to find in colder areas (4)
5 & 1Dn Drastic cutting with a theatrical setting! (5,9) 6 A breach of the peace round the south - get away (6) 7 School of note? (4) 9 Is curious to find out the reward, we hear (5) 11 Angry enough to change sides (5) 12 Military music at the passing-out ceremony! (4,5) 13 Here’s the orchestra - continue conducting to produce this effect (4-5) 17 French nobleman gets at the money (5) 19 A member of a particular race (6) 22 What is left of the fire at the end of last month (5) 23 A protective covering for the instrument (4) 24 Unspoilt condition of Peru, perhaps? (4)
Solutions to previous puzzle:
Across: 1 Buff; 3 Bestride; 8 Eric; 9 Estrange; 11 Country-dance; 13 Eyelid; 14 Seance; 17 Instrumental; 20 Radiator; 21 Gait; 22 Perverse; 23 Feed. Down: 1 Bleached; 2 Failure; 4 Essays; 5 Threatened; 6 Ionic; 7 Even; 10 Strip-tease; 12 Deflated; 15 Nitrate; 16 Jurors; 18 Nadir; 19 Drop.