TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 With broken toe, following timid canine (6)

4 Edit PC set-up to

produce a likeness (6)

9 Bird eaten by lemurs (3)

10 Back-stabbing tutor

run in? Funny ending (9)

11 Splendid beer

knocked back (5)

12 Attendant keeps donkey

in corridor (7)

14 A neat player moves in

zone near the goal (7,4)

17 Girl is a long time making piece of mosaic (7)

18 Item you can strike to

get a fight (5)

20 Rejected, having

governed too much? (9)

22 Come first in

rowing (3)

23 Distance from

Ghent, travelling beyond lake (6)

24 Start to see awful decor

was etched deeply (6)

Down

1 All the best for US

sitcom (6)

2 Inexperienced? No, guy’s

trained (5)

3 One money-drawer in the gallery might excite (9)

5 And the rest spotted in

sketchbook (abbrev)(3)

6 Restate that well-read

learner has gone (7)

7 Herb’s occasion,

reportedly (5)

8 For a change, play lute

all the time (11)

13 Erratic disco amps

pulled out (9)

15 Nearest resort in the

Orient (7)

16 Complained about being plied with Chardonnay, we were told (6)

17 Time to wind up the

monster (5)

19 Tall structure, one pulling

another? (5)

21 Uphill rubbish (3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 American wolf-like creature (6)

4 Illustrate (6)

9 World’s second-largest

bird (3)

10 Act of wilful betrayal (9)

11 Fit for a king (5)

12 A ___ to India, EM Forster

novel (7)

14 Football field ‘box’ (7,4)

17 Mosaic block (7)

18 ___ of the Day, sports

programme (5)

20 Countermanded (9)

22 Triumph (3)

23 End-to-end measurement (6)

24 Gained a goal or a run (6)

Down

1 Chin-chin! (6)

2 Juvenile (5)

3 Excite, stimulate (9)

5 And other things (abbrev)(3)

6 Perform again (7)

7 Aromatic plant of the mint

family (5)

8 All the time (11)

13 Convulsive (9)

15 Of the Orient (7)

16 Cried plaintively (6)

17 Scandinavian goblin (5)

19 Stand very high (5)

21 Balderdash (3)