2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

4. Have respect for apparition (7)

8. Carrier of verse with cover (6)

9. The original competitors in the rat race? (7) 10. Being lazy, I’d gather heather (6)

11. I’m semi-mute, half gone. That makes me exempt (6)

Snaffled, having handy places of habit (8) Wave, change tune and laud (8)

Got a move on, apparently by blackmail (6) Rocks are child’s play (6)

Old stager, his life less private than it sounds (7)

Cut back like a plum? (6)

Release the pawnbroker who lost a century and gained the remains (7) 12. 18. 20. 21. 22.

23. 24.

Down

1. Shrill little people, in good health but fishy (7)

Gather for prayer? (7)

Board meeting provides medium interest (6)

The professional dived around and got supplies (8)

Takes the best for a lady’s make-up (6) Naval reprimand? (6)

Proclaims president and aliens (8) Hiding - from sunburn? (7)

South easterly whisper on the beach (7) Bear right, turn North. It’s fruitless (6) Sharp as ballet costume finally altered (6) Arise, draw up, going ever higher (6) 2. 3.

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6. 7. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 1 Destitution; 9 Hog; 10 Twenty-two; 11 Risky; 13 Cellist; 14 Storms; 16 Dragon; 18 Imperil; 19 Strum; 20 Leeringly; 21 Fan; 22 Assignments. Down: 2 Egg; 3 Tatty; 4 Thence; 5 Titular; 6 Outrigger; 7 Chorus-girls; 8 Contentment; 12 Stop press; 15 Martini; 17 Slogan; 19 Style; 21 Fit.