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. Hosts having many private lines (6) 4. Hoboes making a racket in back street (6) 9. Descriptive of water current! (13) 10. Corresponds with what

strikers use (7) 11. Indirect remark to a

team (5) 12. Kind of layer found on the building site (5) 14. I’m taking a long time to create an idea (5) 18. A different shape for stacks (5) 19. Likely to be resolved by physics (7) 21. Forebodings before

emotional feelings? (13) 22. A piece of material in

ingenious tailoring (6) 23. Kinsman puts us in the

money (6)

Down

1. Not on holiday for the reception (2-4) 2. Could be just the place for a tender marine (13) 3. Name once changed by the aspirate (5)

5. To do this to a lost soul could be a miracle (7) 6. But they don’t forbid the wedding! (8,5) 7. Service having no publicity agents! (6) 8. Grade girl below a hundred (5) 13. Its contents are tapped by

washers (7)

15. Where the faithful give their services (6) 16. A quaintly pleasing kind of accent (5) 17. Allowed to transgress – makes

an admission (4,2) 20. He had a great love for

capital and nothing more (5)

Quick Across

1. Groups of soldiers (6) 4. Vagrants (6) 9. Water pressure generated (13) 10. Games (7) 11. Stage whisper (5) 12. Block of clay (5) 14. Picture (5) 18. Piles (5) 19. Capable of being healed (7) 21. Premonitions (13) 22. Interior covering (6) 23. Relative (6)

Down

1. Open day (2-4) 2. European sea (13) 3. Boy’s name (5) 5. Take back (7) 6. Wedding declaration (8,5) 7. Confidential (6) 8. Form (5) 13. Water-storage tank (7) 15. Place of worship (6) 16. Keen (5) 17. Admits (4,2) 20. Shakespearian lover (5)