TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

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

Cryptic Across

1. Be able to repeat a

strenuous dance (6) 4. Description of a

bunk? (6) 9. He takes the lot (7,6) 10. I earn it as a change from

work (7) 11. Epic story held back by

the national dailies (5) 12. Shares the soup (5) 14. They’re not expected to

impede one’s progress (5) 18. He leads us to her (5) 19. An odd custom with

Eastern dress (7) 21. What bees do when really

busy? (4,6,3) 22. Roman Catholics can

count on it (6) 23. Sorted, resorted and

stocked (6)

Down

1. He shares what’s left (2,4) 2. Only a mild attack of

ague (2,5,6) 3. In skill the French sentry

should be (5) 5. One form of literary

work? (7) 6. Promising gardening

correspondent? (7,6) 7. Scoff at some of the madder ideas put forward (6) 8. Book a strong man (5)

13. Keeper has a dog on a

hill (7) 15. Speak indistinctly, having had a double rum set up? (6) 16. A hundred free of

something pungent (5) 17. Appeared to have joints,

we hear (6) 20. Seeing sense (5)

Quick Across

1. French dance (6) 4. Ocean floor (6) 9. One prepared to pay the

most (7,6) 10. Sluggish state (7) 11. Greek epic (5) 12. Goods (5) 14. Disadvantages (5) 18. Theatre employee (5) 19. Set of clothes (7) 21. Get things going

briskly (4,6,3) 22. String of prayer beads (6) 23. Kept (6)

Down

1. Joint successor (2-4) 2. Not outstanding (2,5,6) 3. Vigilant (5) 5. Issue (7) 6. Promising writer (7,6) 7. Mock (6) 8. Book of maps (5) 13. Museum administrator (7) 15. Indistinct sound (6) 16. Sharp (5) 17. Looked (6) 20. Vision (5)