TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

QUICK Across 1. Subterranean (11)

9. Strike (3)

10. Under hypnosis

(2,1,6) 11. Boulders (5) 13. Tutorial (7) 14. Layers (6) 16. Assert (6) 18. Plain (7) 19. Purchaser (5) 20. Loitering (9) 21. Annual grass (3) 22. Position (11) Down 2. Woody fruit (3) 3. Villainies (5) 4. Smooth (6) 5. Rower (7) 6. Insignificant

thing (9) 7. Scarce (5,6) 8. Office

workers (11) 12. Start of a performance (7,2) 15. Missile (7) 17. Give up a job (6) 19. Muslim woman

of high rank (5) 21. Man’s name (3) CRYPTIC Across 1. Not the overriding reason for taking the tube? (11) 9. Striking success? (3) 10. Perhaps I can’t earn when under hypnosis (2,1,6) 11. Jewels from the

seaside? (5) 13. Class of marines,

possibly (7) 14. Layers of tar put back on a road by one (6) 16. Firmly state that sin

is wrong at first (6) 18. A plain American? (7) 19. One purchasing a

cattle shed, say (5) 20. Heather getting Reg in trouble by sauntering (9) 21. English port or

American whiskey (3) 22. Post that can be

kept or broken (11) Down 2. Hazel, for instance,

returns the barrel (3) 3. The ills of unusual

lives (5) 4. Expressionless girl in extremely giddy state (6) 5. He enjoys having a

row (7) 6. Possibly ninety-ton unimportant person (9) 7. Deficiency in what the barman takes care of? (5,6) 8. Confidential sign for office workers (11) 12. Start to play? (7,2) 15. Poor Ted is destroyed by a missile (7) 17. Singer about to

quit (6) 19. High-ranking Muslim woman out to bug me (5) 21. Man finding nothing

in the navy (3)

Yesterday’s crossword solutions:

Across: 6 Getaway; 7 Pilot; 9 Canoe; 10 Primacy; 12 Cardinal sin; 14 Handmaidens; 18 Compact; 19 Abbot; 21 Scene; 22 Finding. Down: 1 Delay; 2 Pagoda; 3 Raw; 4 Dismal; 5 Conceit; 8 Grenada; 11 Advance; 13 Majorca; 15 Daphne; 16 Nobody; 17 Bound; 20 Hit.