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. A purely symbolic plant (4) 3. Extreme comfort for those

who have retired (8)

9. Go without saying (7) 10. I go round an Italian city (5) 11. Possibly the pressmen tire and give a misleading account (12)

13. Foreigners from an isle (6) 15. S. American cowboy gives

a cough when disturbed (6) 17. Educated postman? (3,2,7) 20. A hit I make in the

Caribbean (5)

21. Don grew upset when

treated unjustly (7)

22. Term of admittance (8) 23. No extra guide to wise

men (4)

Down 1.

You’re unlikely to get fat on it! (4,4)

2. Goes over catalogues (5) 4. Trees entitled to respect? (6) 5. Pleasure of

compensation (12) 6. Long continuing chronicle

that’s cut short (7)

7. Cheap price, but requiring a

lot of notes (4)

8. Appear to enter and watch

TV? (4,4,4)

12. Think it’s deliberate (8) 14. The type that’s inclined to

emphasise (7)

16. Current bloom? (6)

18. Number of men engaged in

a row, perhaps (5)

19. Keep quiet and work to obtain the goods one wants (4)

Quick Across

1. Flower (4) 3. Nightwear (8) 9. Run away (7) 10. Italian city (5) 11. Show inaccurately (12) 13. Strangers (6)

15. Cowboy (6)

17. Writer (3,2,7)

20. Caribbean republic (5) 21. Treated unfairly (7) 22. Secret phrase (8) 23. Celebrity (4)

Down

1. Non-fatty food (4,4) 2. Leans (5) 4. Seniors (6) 5. Fulfilment (12) 6. Habitual (7) 7. Musical piece (4) 8. Emerge (4,4,4) 12. Deem (8)

14. Slanting letters (7) 16. Blossom (6) 18. Number (5) 19. Store (4)