TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clues, try the Quick.

Cryptic Across

4. Obtrusively rob a bank? (5,2)

8. Often drunk, though too much is bad for it (6)

9. An unusual allergy in the theatre (7)

10. Stay to put mother in control (6)

11. Mother and child supply fruit (6)

12. Conflict in which countercharges may be the deciding factor (5,3)

18. I’m powerful but helpless (8)

20. Father is an employer of hesitations (6)

21. Attacker with inside help (6)

22. It’s sung in a church or a Lenten service (7)

23. Idle thrust about nothing (6)

24. They get the game moving and always win (7)

Down

1. Pray, perhaps, when under the treatment (7)

2. Stop a girl working in a pub (7)

3. Yet it may mean miners work harder! (6)

5. Predator moved to show a sign of distress (8) 6. Supporting feature in newspapers (6)

7. Get out of bed? (6)

13. Presumably he was happy while painting (8)

14. Aiming for a title (7)

15. About five looked really hungry (7)

16. Pound that is required to join an old club (6)

17. Wit from a priest (6)

19. Speaker who is skilled at splitting alternatives (6)

Quick Across

4. Protrude (5,2)

8. Condition (6)

9. Exhibition room (7)

10. Be left (6)

11. Fruit (6)

12. Retail battle (5,3)

18. Powerless (8)

20. Hesitates (6)

21. Marauder (6)

22. Hymn tune (7)

23. Room (6)

24. Bird rousers (7) Down

1. Treatment (7)

2. Pub worker (7)

3. Hit (6)

5. Sign of sadness (8)

6. Pillar (6)

7. Displace (6)

13. US painter (8)

14. Leading (7)

15. Fasted (7)

16. Old golf iron (6)

17. Liveliness (6)

19. Addresser (6)