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 & 4Ac. Obstruct pieces of correspondence – they’re boldly printed! (5,7) 4. See 1 Across. 8 & 19Dn. What the entertainment manager has to pay for dramatic advertisement (7,4) 9. This kind of hitch provides a little spice (5) 10 & 12Dn. Get left standing, like the politician who’s become unpopular (4,4,4) 11. I’ve changed the decoration all round – it’s centuries old (8) 13 & 14Ac. Manually created, we hear, for a servant (8) 14 See 13 Across. 16. The skill is to attempt aesthetic workmanship (8) 17. An expert gets the

right genus of trees (4) 20. Weapon used to do

some looting (5) 21. X is after a summons that’s been recorded (7) 22. Made an erasure permitted in the document (7) 23. Catalogues of oldtime tournament sites (5)

Down

1. Showing signs of having been engaged! (6-7) 2. Discloses nothing

writers appended (5) 3. Bird restricted in flight by control-line (4) 4. We hear the chief

works of Schubert (6) 5. It’s expedient to show diplomacy by one short call (8) 6. Developed naturally – went round topless! (7) 7. Add to the private

strength (5,3,5) 12. See 10 Across. 13. Odious fault he made in a different way (7) 15. Mob round the east raised shouts of triumph (6) 18. Makes quotations – spectacles needed, we hear (5) 19. See 8 Across.

Quick Across

1. Brick (5) 4. Epistles (7) 8. Playhouse (7) 9. Garlic bulb segment (5) 10 & 12Dn. Fail to be

re-elected (4,4,4) 11. Of the Middle Ages (8) 13. Labourer (4) 14. Servant (4) 16. Skill (8) 17. Tree (4) 20. Firearm (5) 21. Penned (7) 22. Erased (7) 23. Leans (5)

Down

1. Marked from

combat (6-7) 2. Renders accessible (5) 3. Flying toy (4) 4. Songs (6) 5. Strategic (8) 6. Developed (7) 7. Increase the

membership (5,3,5) 12. See 10 Across. 13. Loathsome (7) 15. Boasted (6) 18. Quotes (5) 19. Beak (4)