TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

Quick Clues

ACROSS 3 Abundance (9) 8 Test (4) 9 Dawdler (9) 10 Conventional (6) 11 Donkeys (5) 14 Firearm (5) 15 Spellbound (4) 16 Pierces (5) 18 Jug (4) 20 Services trainee (5) 21 Arrive at (5) 24 Suit maker (6) 25 Broke (7,2) 26 Norwegian city (4) 27 Regain consciousness (4,5) DOWN 1 Actor (9) 2 Square deal (4,5) 4 Bap (4) 5 Young deer (5) 6 Rather (6) 7 One time (4) 9 Stock-clearance events (5) 11 Embarrass (5) 12 Hourglass (9) 13 Private cabin (5-4) 17 Fragment (5) 19 Save (6) 22 Statement of belief (5) 23 Therefore (4) 24 Rotate (4)

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 3 Plenty in favour of a merger (9) 8 Former morning paper (4) 9 Sluggard making little progress with a tutor (9) 10 Class a number as precise (6) 11 They carry goods south in stormy seas (5) 14 Strip a fire-arm? (5) 15 Absorbed with a new part (4) 16 Wounds in a most absentminded way (5) 18 Pitcher we return with little hesitation (4) 20 Acted strangely for a Service trainee (5) 21 Come up to stretch between bends (5) 24 Habit-forming, craftsman (6) 25 Broke down, oddly enough! (7,2) 26 Capital needed so brought back fifty and nothing more (4) 27 Neighbourly invitation - after an operation? (4,5) DOWN 1 He may do you a good turn! (9) 2 Not a bad bid for the roundabouts? (4,5) 4 One may call it a breakfast favourite (4) 5 Colours and becomes servile (5) 6 Rather earlier (6) 7 Formerly found in a prison cell (4) 9 These are sure to be brisk for beer on board (5) 11 A strike may make one ashamed (5) 12 Old-timer (9) 13 Specify space available for a first-class passenger (5-4) 17 Throw away a fight? (5) 19 Possibly secure and free from danger (6) 22 Belief in sacred office (5) 23 A monster came up for that reason (4) 24 A fit convert, perhaps (4)