Uxbridge Gazette

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 clue, try the Quick.

Cryptic Across

7. Partly instruct how to create a character (5) 8. E.g. seals that don’t alter with time (7)

9. Rue flat being taken thus and become lachrymose (7)

10. Teacher makes a mess of trout (5)

12. Local community putting things in order (10)

15. A graduate uses his true letters? Not at all profession­al! (10)

18. Give tuition to the retinue (5)

19. 100, being up to scratch, come into line (7)

21. Stripes for clergymen? (7)

22. Be a very hungry bird? (5)

Down

1. Good government producing royal vessel (10)

2. Varnish from the Far-East (5)

3. The chief loses one cook (4)

4. Wager everything included in dancing entertainm­ent (6)

5. Ants seen in tidy order (8)

6. Pagan way to cook chicken (7)

11. Tear about to make me weary after finishing work (10) 13. Regularity is a quality of nightfall, perhaps (8)

14. Boy in pain becomes a hero (7)

16. A nook for a holiday? (6)

17. One about five find the answer (5)

20. The rule is to have a choice of letters (4)

Quick Across

7. Educate (5)

8. Eternal (7)

9. Weepy (7)

10. Instructor (5)

12. Colony (10)

15. Unprofessi­onal (10)

18. Railway vehicle (5)

19. Comply (7)

21. Religious ministers (7)

22. Black bird (5)

Down

1. Managing of public affairs (10)

2. Asian country (5)

3. Cook (4)

4. Style of dance (6)

5. Tidiness (8)

6. Pagan (7)

11. Giving up of work (10)

13. Flatness (8)

14. Legendary knight (7)

16. Alcove (6)

17. Work out answer to (5)

20. Standard (4)

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