Western Mail

TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

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QUICK Across

1. Elevated horticultu­ral areas (4,7)

9. Pointed tool (3)

10. Snowfall (9)

11. Race meeting (5)

13. Matching garments (7)

14. Aircraft store (6)

16. Aid (6)

18. Stepped in (7)

19. Monarchal (5)

20. Safe bet (4,5)

21. Untruth (3)

22. Solid figure (11)

Down

2. Petroleum (3)

3. Banquet (5)

4. Expects (6)

5. Personal records (7)

6. Prerequisi­te (9)

7. Free faller (11)

8. Abstainer (11)

12. Confluence (9)

15. Accounts checker (7)

17. Improve quality (6)

19. Inflexible (5)

21. Star sign (3)

CRYPTIC Across

1. Highly cultivated features of modern cities (4,7)

9. Everything, we hear, for shoemakers (3)

10. Dreadful comedown for Alpine travellers (9)

11. Fashionabl­e racecourse for a northern Briton (5)

13. Madly entwist knitwear? (7)

14. Shelter for fliers (6)

16. A donkey, it’s about to help (6)

18. Trampled, with or without study (7)

19. Regal part of Troy, a long time ago (5)

20. Their guns will be broken, you can safely bet on that! (4,5)

21. Dishonest statement Eli translated (3)

22. Rather toned up figure (11)

Down

2. Naturally, it lacks refinement (3)

3. Spread strongly over the East (5)

4. Stays will change a waist (6)

5. Record books I’d come up to sign (7)

6. Need no luxury (9)

7. He will fall on his enemies (11)

8. He prefers to be a man lacking spirit (11)

12. A crowd of a hundred heading the right way (9)

15. He will be called to account (7)

17. Improve Cher in extraordin­ary fashion (6)

19. Stiff clothes I’d put on (5)

21. Star sign of simple, ordinary folk (3)

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