TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

Quick Clues ACROSS

1 Out of date (11) 9 --- Games, sporting event (7) 10 Stroll (5) 11 Very fat (5) 12 Go before (7) 13 Husky (6) 15 Cave (6) 18 Fantasised (7) 20 Weather condition (5) 22 Permit (5) 23 Hoodlum (7) 24 System (11)

DOWN

2 Robert ---, Irish scientist (5) 3 Subjugate (7) 4 Break free (6) 5 Hoist (5) 6 Most dignified (7) 7 Become ruined (2,2,3,4) 8 Process of growing (11) 14 Typical (7) 16 Calm (7) 17 Worshipped (6) 19 Game (5) 21 Due (5)

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

1 The old boy takes the only perfume that is going out of date (11) 9 Policy reels round my head for regular games (7) 10 Go at easy pace - drink brought round doctor! (5) 11 Initially overweight by excessive stuffing ended fat! (5) 12 Take the lead but give up beforehand, apparently (7) 13 Rusty ashore (6) 15 Rot got into cave (6) 18 In which dunderhead showered 500 papers on to editor’s head (7) 20 Some overcast or menacing sky indicates bad weather (5) 22 Admit to being an American general (5) 23 Fair fun for the bully (7) 24 Get holy mood for the scientific way to investigate (11)

DOWN

2 The lad seen with the French scientist famed for law (5) 3 Be a tyrant but give little work to reporters (7) 4 Get away from two points on headland (6) 5 Uplifting bird? (5) 6 No belts fitted to the most honourable (7) 7 Visit the greyhound track - and suffer ruin! (2,2,3,4) 8 Gradual growth of part of photographic business (11) 14 Declare one’s years to be normal (7) 16 Fluster in such a way as to make tranquil (7) 17 Loved Communist after fuss (6) 19 When two teams could go on strike? (5) 21 Go back - about to gain victory which is due (5)