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

1. Used for making up a

strange pie (11)

9. Streams of invective one

gets in some professions (7) 10. Illicit photograph? (5)

11. Man-made product found

in many London stores (5) 12. A red tongue (7)

13. Reply some Americans

were hoping for (6)

15. One may speak it or wear

it (6)

18. He makes his mark at

times (7)

20. The smallest type of slate (5) 22. Mince pies having a brown

colour (5)

23. A painstaking

preparation? (7)

24. Bert at speed becomes

splashed with mud (11)

Down

2. In Peru rallies are held in

the country (5)

3. Term in music, and type of

bet (7) 4. Possibly run and see to

make certain (6)

5. Girls lose their heads – the

fools! (5)

6. Driving a point home? (7) 7. This order won’t require

attention (5,2,4)

8. Silent dance arranged in

secret (11) 14. A high point of religious

architecture (7)

16. Be as bad as ever about a

mistake (7)

17. It may be played when not

in form (6)

19. Seagoing vagabond (5)

21. Possibly eager to

correspond (5)

Quick Across

1. Theatrical make-up (11) 9. Rantings (7)

10. Motionless (5)

11. Man-made fabric (5)

12. Slavonic language (7) 13. Response (6)

15. Sturdy shoe (6)

18. Voter (7)

20. Minimum (5)

22. Shade of brown (5)

23. Painkiller (7)

24. Splashed all over (11)

Down

2. Rustic (5)

3. A moderately slow tempo (7) 4. Make certain (6)

5. Donkeys (5)

6. Tacking (7)

7. Military command (5,2,4) 8. Secretive (11)

14. Spire (7)

16. Return of illness (7)

17. Absentee (6)

19. Vagrant (5)

21. Concur (5)