TWO SPEED CROSSWORD
Quick Clues
ACROSS
3 Numbers less than
zero (9)
8 Rotate (4)
9 Subsidiary (9)
10 Rodents (6)
11 Relating to
punishment (5)
14 Valued (5)
15 Church area (4)
16 Bumpkin (5)
18 Above (4)
20 Change (5) 21 Jockey (5)
24 Military display (6) 25 Intermediary (6-3) 26 Have consideration
(4)
27 Decade (9)
DOWN
1 Warehouse (5-4) 2 Armed vessel (9) 4 Sight organs (4) 5 By oneself (5) 6 Asian (6)
7 Spanish river (4) 9 Shabby (5)
11 Card game (5)
12 Final blow (4,5) 13 Car parts (4-5) 17 Old Testament
character (5)
19 Puzzle (6)
22 Incident (5)
23 Document folder
(4)
24 Steal (4)
Cryptic Clues
ACROSS
3 Doesn’t vote in support of
photographic plates (9)
8 & 18Ac Expose the other side of
all the money one handles (4,4)
9 To support a railway is not of
prime importance (9)
10 Badly made case enclosing six
guinea-pigs (6)
11 Write nearly everything concerned
with punishment (5)
14 Trade wrongly assessed (5)
15 Jack, we hear, will be seen in
church (4)
16 Rustic coupling for oxen near the
back of the wheel (5)
18 See 8 20 Make a change in an international terminal (5)
21 From the geometer I derived a
corollary (5)
24 Design with a needle and do some
lace-work as well (6)
25 A central figure in commerce (6-3) 26 See 24 Down
27 Even in beastly places this decade
is apparent (9)
DOWN
1 But this doesn’t usually offer
space for cattle (5-4)
2 Sea-dog sounds like a secret
eavesdropper (9)
4 Pupils are the ones who agree, by
the sound of it (4)
5 There’s no rise in beer - that’s
unique! (5)
6 & 23Dn There’s no coupling in this
line (6,4)
7 River with an unusual bore (4)
9 In poor condition - describing
what is broadcast? (5)
11 Jabber - it’s a game of bluff (5)
12 Camel’s back-breaker (4,5)
13 Not clothes containers found in
cars! (4-5)
17 The French proscribe an Old
Testament character (5)
19 Sift out a puzzling problem (6)
22 Happening to be found in twentyseven (5)
23 See 6 Down
24 & 26Ac Accept anxiety and don’t
be rash (4,4)