The Citizen (Gauteng)

TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

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Quick Clues

ACROSS

1 Avoid (2-4) 4 Tent-dweller (6) 9 Supreme commander (13) 10 Ball room dance (3-4) 11 Nobody (2-3) 12 Light meal (5) 14 Heavy strokes (5) 18 Ventilated (5) 19 Turn around (7) 21 Drug cabinet (85) 22 Threefold (6) 23 Unstable periods (6)

DOWN

1 Capital of Columbia (6) 2 Crossing place (7-6) 3 Structural member (5) 5 Arms store (7) 6 Jail officials (6,7) 7 Having origins (6) 8 Incline (5) 13 Will supplement (7) 15 Rodent (6)16 Open (5) 17 Alluvial areas (6) 20 Clergyman (5)

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

1 Not the most direct way near the mountain road (2-4) 4 It needs support from certain guys to provide him with shelter (6) 9 Commander-in-chief realising some changes must be made (13) 10 Double pace for a dance (3-4) 11 Somebody? Far from it (2-3) 12 Light meal bag holding the end of the ration (5) 14 Sudden misfortune­s for fifty in the prow (5) 18 In the advertisem­ent passion is given publicity (5) 19 Go back about a certain number of lines (7) 21 One who is taking physics will resort to this (8-5) 22 Make a key three times as big (6) 23 Dangerous occasions come up in the Civil Service (6)

DOWN

1 Snake got inside Colombian city (6) 2 One card game after another will enable people to go from bank to bank (7-6) 3 Support a haughty movement (5) 5 Magazine from which disturbing reports could emanate (7) 6 They look after those who are barred (6,7) 7 Shown the road to travel, we hear, but fixed in one spot (6) 8 An inclinatio­n to do some pruning in the south-east (5) 13 Does this give added willpower? (7) 15 Spoil the French word for woodchuck (6) 16 Conqueror of Gaul, to be candid (5) 17 Parts of rivers that could well be salted (6) 20 The cleric will make some of the civic arrangemen­ts (5)

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