2-Speed Crossword
Choose either the quick or cryptic clues – answers are the same.
QUICK CLUES Across
1. Exhibit (4) 3. Bandits (8) 8. Jot (4) 9. Unexplained (8) 11. Long outdoor race (5-7) 13. Gundog (6) 14. Sways (6) 17. Epistler (6-6) 20. Place of business (8) 21. Dingy (4) 22. Withstood (8) 23. Clothed (4)
Down
1. Valise (8) 2. Isolated settlement (7) 4. Kidnapper’s payment (6) 5. Preliminary labour (10) 6. Not ever (5) 7. Surface (4) 10. Determines (10) 12. Credited (8) 15. Unaffected (7) 16. Ice over (6) 18. Odds (5) 19. Box (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
1. See 7 Down
3. They are found in gangs and in sailingships (8)
8. How I will be designated in Greece (4) 9. Describing crimes that still attract police attention (8)
11. Kind of race to go from one frontier to another (5-7)
13. Variety of street dog (6)
14. More than one fairground attraction has a lively rhythm (6)
17. What he produces will eventually be enveloped! (6-6)
20. They set forth the terms for a building and its adjuncts (8)
21. Dull Celtic poet is making a come-back (4) 22. The editress somehow put up some opposition (8) 23. Dressed as a roue about fifty (4)
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1. Gear-box? (8)
2. External appointment to a remote spot (7) 4. Charge associated with kidnapping (6) 5. Operate near the earth to produce the necessary basis (10)
6. Find the negative in Alexandrine verse (5)
7 & 1Ac. The team display is a subsidiary attraction (4-4)
10. Finds out for sure when the fool is around (10)
12. Attributed to a writer featured in an advertisement (8)
15. This note is not man-made (7)
16. Sets at large, we hear, to suffer from the rigours of the weather (6)
18. Seven stakes embracing a betting term (5) 19. Mast can be dispensed with almost (4)