TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

QUICK Across

7. Uneven (5) 8. Digits (7) 9. Colour (7) 10. Gem (5) 12. Astronomy (10) 15. Limestone formation (10) 18. Wooden shoe (5) 19. Lose hope (7) 21. Shouts (7) 22. First-rate (5)

Down

1. Exaggerates (10) 2. Sweet (5) 3. Avoid (4) 4. Matter (6) 5. Aubergine (8) 6. Unlawfully enter (5,2) 11. Carrying portable weapons (5-5) 13. Act of pulling (8) 14. Merganser (7) 16. Contemporary (6) 17. Adage (5) 20. Plant fluids (4)

CRYPTIC Across

7. Coarse oldfashioned neckwear, we hear (5) 8. Physical forms showing vital statistics! (7) 9. Colour factor encompassed by the graduate (7) 10. This kind of diver is a certain type (5) 12. Showing an astronomical interest in watching famous actors! (10) 15. I get Malta’s limestone formation confused (10) 18. The age of deliberate destruction is trodden underfoot (5) 19. Gloominess is mistakenly praised (7) 21. Fire-raisers (7) 22. First to supply advance information (5)

Down

1. Tells a story in a playful way? (10) 2. Obscure kind of sweetmeat (5) 3. Keep away from the slush underfoot (4) 4. Secret Romance is a very loud song (6) 5. Urge someone to set an aubergine (8) 6. School the horse - it’s a crime to do it! (5,2) 11. Describing soldiers equipped with incendiaries? (5-5) 13. The sort of engine used in physiotherapy (8) 14. Spotted beak for a bird (7) 16. Fashionable doctor with a pretty girl! (6) 17. What the machinegunner uses as a rule (5) 20. Enervates the leader of the paratroopers in the Special Air Services (4)