TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

Quick Clues

ACROSS 1 Shape (4) 3 Omens (8) 9 Time-keeping device (3-4) 10 Sea birds (5) 11 Body of examiners (12) 13 Weapons (6) 15 Vegetable (6) 17 Arguments (12) 20 Composure (5) 21 Cattle farmer (7) 22 List (8) 23 Press (4) DOWN 1 Celebration (8) 2 Rows (5) 4 Narrate (6) 5 Icing (5-7) 6 Mythical living statue (7) 7 Waistband (4) 8 Explosive detectors (4,8) 12 Protect (8) 14 Depending (7) 16 Rare (6) 18 Different (5) 19 Goad (4) Cryptic Clues ACROSS 1 A class that gets sat upon! (4) 3 Future indications for a generation in the journalistic world (8) 9 This uses natural light to show a time-exposure (3-4) 10 Manages to dupe the birds (5) 11 Examination panel look first and speak afterwards (12) 13 They may be all in a quiver (6) 15 Take a shot at nothing - it may get chipped! (6) 17 Wrangles resulting from reforms about the start of the century (12) 20 Ask a question about one kind of balance (5) 21 American interested in the stock market (7) 22 Record the range of one’s voice (8) 23 Stimulate to activity in our generation (4) DOWN 1 The celebration left Avis in trouble (8) 2 Is assigned to a particular class for soldiers (5) 4 Connect one thing with another to tell a story (6) 5 Ice-cap? You may eat your cake and have it! (5-7) 6 Statuesque female has a drink after the fete (7) 7 Use southern timber for this kind of window (4) 8 Not men employed to keep the pit clean! (4,8) 12 Don’t waste the jam (8) 14 Showing confident trust about false statements (7) 16 Not often found in the tester’s car certificate (6) 18 To put up with a female is quite different (5) 19 Almost contemptuously reject physical stimulus (4)