Loughborough Echo

TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

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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. They might give people new heart! (11)

9. It was in form when young (7)

10. Some of what he irons belongs to them (5)

11. This is plural (5)

12. Upset a caterer in a domestic row (7) 13. Tries to put it in writing? (6)

15. He doesn’t go for a horse that will finish (6)

18. Put into liquidatio­n? (7)

20. A step in making wine? (5)

22. A girl with good ones may attract a lot of them! (5)

23. Hide from the real chaos (7)

24. Happy manufactur­ers enjoy themselves? (11)

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2. Verbal criticism of a show (5)

3. In which youngsters blossom forth? (7) 4. Pete gets round it being small (6)

5. Moving melody about a good man (5)

6. They knock inside for treatment (7)

7. Are they given by singers accused of being off-key? (4,7)

8. Have they no sense of duty? (4,7)

14. Nobody in particular (7)

16. Two small birds make one (7)

17. Blamed for an uproar (6)

19. One who gets up part of the stairs? (5)

21. Hesitation about the stuff used in theatres (5)

Quick Across

1. Surgical procedures (11)

9. Young hare (7)

10. Belonging to them (5)

11. Not those (5)

12. Row of houses (7)

13. Treatises (6)

15. Persistent person (6)

18. Submerge (7)

20. Step (5)

22. Appears (5)

23. Hide (7)

24. Revellers (11)

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2. Show (5)

3. Crèche (7)

4. Small (6)

5. Lively (5)

6. Treatment (7)

7. Blunt refusals (4,7)

8. Anti-protection­ists (4,7)

14. A person (7)

16. Pipit (7)

17. Uproar (6)

19. Stair part (5)

21. Anaestheti­c (5)

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