TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

QUICK Across

1. Fixes a standard (4,3,4)

9. Igniter (7)

10. Electricity tower (5)

11. Rush (5)

12. Assistance (7)

13. Wood (6)

15. Indian river (6)

18. Sorrow (7)

20. Chatter (5)

22. Gambling odds (5)

23. Breathing passages (7)

24. Numbers present (11)

Down

2. Anxious (5)

3. Posers (7)

4. Unorthodox opinion (6) 5. Document (5) 6. Shouting (7) 7. Mean (5-6) 8. Scatter among (11)

14. Trivial amount (3,4)

16. Analgesic (7)

17. Water-surrounded land (6)

19. Come next (5)

21. Lessen (5)

CRYPTIC Across

1. What the rate-fixer does? (4,3,4)

9. Having lost weight, the girl looks different (7)

10. This holds up current supplies! (5)

11. A swell operator doesn’t get on! (5)

12. It should be faultless in court (7)

13. This could be made up of hard wood or the softer variety (6)

15. Robber bands round Eastern river (6)

18. There’s some depression in this state (7)

20. It’s soft to grumble and gossip (5)

22. Paradoxically they could be the odds (5)

23. Methods used by broadcasting companies or flying concerns (7)

24. They are indicated by present marks (11)

Down

2. Agree to be enthusiastic (5)

3. They won’t stand for being models (7)

4. Where symbolism will show unorthodox practice (6)

5. Novel kind of back? (5)

6. Asking loudly for a vocation (7)

7. Mean description of the boxer in action? (5-6)

8. To make a diversified arrangement entire press needs recasting (11)

14. Money the revolutionary dispatched, we hear (3,4)

16. Bein’ ambitious, one needs an anodyne (7)

17. Unrestrained lads in Bermuda, maybe (6)

19. A piece of green suede to follow (5)

21. Calm down - it sounds like a temptation to get caught (5)