TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Niece slept fitfully – possible outcome of epidemic (10) 8 Drove round town (5) 9 Distant body clumsily put

in East Midlands river (7) 10 Support line from your

peg (3-4) 11 Goes first to Yorkshire city, reportedly (5) 12 Wildly cause toff to die

through lack of air (9) 15 Horoscope for sailor in his

proper environment (5) 17 Colour swineherds’ tunics

initially! (7) 19 Cross-country runner’s

jump-jet (7) 20 Telling untruths unknown

in fish (5) 21 Party pooper knew tablet

was dodgy (3,7)

DOWN

2 Resentment around, ring

diplomat (5) 3 Disgusting thing to

negotiate junction? (4-3) 4 Army officer Colonel PA

Carr, beaten up (5,8) 5 The French writer retired in

an Asian country (5) 6 Moving due to animal start

ing express train (7) 7 Looks both ways (4) 8 Accommodation at archae

ological sites? (4) 12 Bird and salmon eaten by

pig (7) 13 Sodium back on heights of

African country (7) 14 Animal entering most

aggressively (4) 15 Some lasso horses in

an area of London (4) 16 Broke the casing with

tin-opener (5) 18 The cream of the

Carmelites (5)