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. Roman poet? (4) 3. Dying – bone buried in hillock (8) 8. Nothing to write it’s plain to see (4)

9. Stern with more than 500 in this region (8)

11. A foreboding of this moment – about time after not starting (12)

13. Keep 16 with little change (6)

14. Put in order but barely in the Christian era (6)

17. Deny act I call not done on purpose (12)

20. We annoy, I make out, from a possible point of view (2,3,3)

21. Declare to be a promise (4)

22. Being more remote from the truth? (8)

23. Ted, perhaps, to go round and round in the water (4)

Down

1. Shakespearean character who could thrive on nothing (8)

2. It is given but not away (7)

4. After work I took a narcotic (6)

5. Scare – but I’d be in familiar surroundings (10)

6. Marriage for workers? (5)

7. An assignment in one’s palmy days? (4)

10. Finely tied, no doubt (10)

12. Keep off – the support has been removed (4,4)

15. Not given heart, it would seem (7)

16. Recover, for example, in wet weather (6)

18. Credit frequently given to small farm (5)

19. There’s nothing under cover, but one may bathe here (4)

Quick Across

1. Pontiff (4)

3. Near death (8)

8. Overt (4)

9. Locality (8)

11. Premonition (12)

13. Keep (6)

14. Regulate (6)

17. Unintentionally (12)

20. In a certain aspect (2,3,3)

21. State (4)

22. Distant (8)

23. Whirlpool (4)

Down

1. Shakespearean character (8)

2. Gift (7)

4. Drug (6)

5. Scare (10)

6. Alliance (5)

7. Fruit (4)

10. Certainly (10)

12. Remain elsewhere (4,4)

15. Not adored (7)

16. Get back (6)

18. Small farm (5)

19. Swimming pool (4)