TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

Quick Clues ACROSS

7 Love affairs (6) 8 Arrange (3,3) 10 Checker (7) 11 Run into (5) 12 Simmered dish (4) 13 Exalt (5) 17 Contract (5) 18 Air (4) 22 Model (5) 23 Rude (3-4) 24 Stress (6) 25 Order (6)

DOWN

1 Fortune teller (7) 2 Indicated (7) 3 Compose (5) 4 Fulfil (7) 5 Nick (5) 6 Shop (5) 9 At liberty (4,2,3) 14 Revealing (7) 15 Animal product seller (7) 16 Instruction (7) 19 Shrub (5) 20 Roost (5) 21 Slumber (5)

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

7 Foreign affairs? (6) 8 Plan to expend (3,3) 10 Scholastic lizard? (7) 11 Risk having a dog at home (5) 12 Wild West dish of meat and vegetables (4) 13 I defy changes in worship (5) 17 Let a number have comfort (5) 18 Atmosphere in which Laura loses her head (4) 22 I have timber that’s perfect (5) 23 So churlish it makes Bill red (3-4) 24 Stress it’s money on account (6) 25 Bet he’s in command (6)

DOWN

1 He says our future is in our own hands (7) 2 Such remarks may still be blunt! (7) 3 Silently put into words (5) 4 Stays if made content (7) 5 One way to score (5) 6 Magazine for some of us to read (5) 9 Currently at liberty! (4,2,3) 14 Most effective way of using information (7) 15 Skin specialist (7) 16 Fellow with an appointment and a command (7) 19 I ring up about a shrub (5) 20 Fish rod (5) 21 The usual object of retirement (5)