QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Halve (6) 4. Drenched (6) 9. Intensely competitive games (6,7) 10. Put in order (7) 11. Smell (5) 12. Light meal (5) 14. Vessel (5)

18. Peg (5) 19. Arthur’s court (7) 21. Thing assisting progress (8-5) 22. Naval commander (6) 23. Forces away (6)

Down

1. Fowl (6) 2. Vehicle part (8,5) 3. Punctuation mark (5) 5. Open-air (7) 6. Class mates (13) 7. Abandon (6) 8. Brown colour (5) 13. Dance (7) 15. Likely to win (4-2) 16. Insufficient (5) 17. Mammals (6) 20. Skinflint (5)

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 1 Plain clothes; 7 Bantu; 8 Nadir; 9 Leo; 10 Decameron; 11 Enmity; 12 Itself; 15 Boy Scouts; 17 Air; 18 Radii; 19 Fibre; 21 Alternatives. Down: 1 Parallel bars; 2 Nun; 3 Launch; 4 Tinsmiths; 5 Eider; 6 Transformers; 7 Broom; 10 Detective; 13 Erase; 14 Puffin; 16 Yodel; 20 Bit.