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
3. Noted for being whimsical,
perhaps (9)
8. Close to being stingy (4) 9. Without pretending, because
has to trust (9)
10. Circular about the leader
becoming plump (6)
11. Lower oneself to come to a
halt – nothing in it! (5)
14. Why enactment includes
carnivore (5)
15. Humour is about right for a legal
document (4)
16. They knock each other in fear (5) 18. Quiet work in store (4)
20. A learner in the eye of the
beholder (5)
21. Unpleasant in disposition, as
tyrannical (5)
24. Master turbulent current (6)
25. Quite simple: wrongly identified
as Russian currency (2,7)
26. It can take one up over 50 feet (4) 27. Earliest form of top poetry (9)
Down
1. Rash antic from
revolutionary (9)
2. Set trap up for fowl on Greek
temple (9)
4. Right to help in incursion (4) 5. Unspoken one in diplomacy (5) 6. Cause anguish using farm implement .... (6)
7. .... to cultivate – that’s where the cash goes! (4)
9. Ken as an informer (5)
11. Shabby, but full of potential
growth? (5)
12. Copper hit out when making
predictions (9) 13. Nobody won: ship’s officer
past his best (9)
17. Flood of faulty tapes (5)
19. Merely repeat or get back into
role (6)
22. Put confidence in fund held for
others’ benefit (5)
23. Time of no loss of good
reputation (4)
24. Smack gets friends up! (4)
Quick
Across
3. Irritable (9)
8. Close to (4) 9. Earnestly (9)
10. Plump (6)
11. Bend forward (5)
14. Dog-like mammal (5) 15. Document (4)
16. Leg joints (5)
18. Store (4)
20. Student (5)
21. Unpleasant (5)
24. Brook (6)
25. Easily (2,7)
26. Elevator (4)
27. Model (9)
Down
1. Revolutionary (9) 2. Acropolis temple (9) 4. Attack (4)
5. Implied (5)
6. English school (6) 7. Cash register (4) 9. Move furtively (5) 11. Shabby (5)
12. Predictive (9)
13. Deadlock (9)
17. Flood (5)
19. Macaw (6)
22. Have faith in (5)
23. Unit of time (4)
24. Strike (4)