TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

QUICK Across

1. Egg timers (11) 9. Assimilates (7) 10. Of a town or city (5) 11. Spanish man (5) 12. African country (7) 13. Promote the growth of (6) 15. Neglect (6) 18. Memory defect (7) 20. Form (5) 22. Dupe (5) 23. Examiner (7) 24. Embroidery (11)

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2. Keyboard instrument (5) 3. Book (7) 4. Being defeated (6) 5. Pained sharply (5) 6. Prohibition (7) 7. Caesar’s fateful date (4,2,5) 8. Appointments (11) 14. Genuine (7) 16. Nazi secret police (7) 17. Royal building (6) 19. Satisfied (5) 21. Non-Jewish caucasian (5)

CRYPTIC Across

1. Time to get spectacles for telling the time (11) 9. Eats potted versions (7) 10. Not a rural pope (5) 11. A European man, but certainly not Norse (5) 12. I regain a new order in Africa (7) 13. Promote the development of a damp doctor? (6) 15. Neglect to tidy up a region (6) 18. Inability to remember new names when the road’s up (7) 20. New phase of fashion (5) 22. Possibly teach to break the rules (5) 23. Psychiatrist heard to give a girl a table (7) 24. A sharp one needed for embroidery? (11)

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2. Groan coming out of a musical instrument (5) 3. Minimum price for a substitute (7) 4. Failing to win a record without moral transgression (6) 5. Chanted about top teacher getting attacked by a bee (5) 6. Possibly bag more during prohibition (7) 7. A dangerous time for Caesar if so charmed, perhaps (4,2,5) 8. Betrothals recorded in a diary? (11) 14. True one is in new screen version (7) 16. Postage problem for the Nazi secret police (7) 17. Friend getting expert to build a royal house (6) 19. Full of dates? (5) 21. Nordic like Mr Giggs, for example (5)