TWO SPEED CROSSWORD Cryptic

This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clues, try the Quick.

Across

4. Part of the rigging, we hear,

put in the market (3,4) 8. Edged all round and made

the victim of a plot (6) 9. Refer to a certain part of the book for what has been leaked (7)

10. See 18 Across

11. Having nothing to do, I’d

fish (6)

12. Literally, what any script

should be (8)

18 & 10Ac. Country air (8,6)

20. Answers to charges, we

hear, give satisfaction (6) 21. Plunder deteriorates (6)

22. Established genuine backing for Shake-spearian character (7)

23. A hundred surrender and show willingness to make an agreement (6)

24. How people who are prepared are idly disposed (7)

Down

1. Transactions associated

with philanderers (7) 2. Showing a preference for

what is not complete (7) 3. Avenge the destruction of

Swiss location (6)

5. Debit one for taking orders (8) 6. Provide the goods with

agility (6)

7. A member to finish the

story (6)

13. Fertiliser made from ground

skeletons (4,4) 14. Moves to action in spectacles,

by the sound of it (7)

15. Showed signs of modesty,

being comfortable in bed! (7) 16. Separate or keep together (6) 17. The poet reportedly

ostracised (6)

19. As the result of a clash, I’m

wanting a treaty (6)

Across

4. Purchasable (3,4) 8. Bordered (6)

9. Leakage (7)

10. Song (6)

11. Loitering (6)

12. Legible (8)

18. Countrywide (8)

20. Satisfy (6)

21. Damages (6)

22. Father of Odysseus (7) 23. Agree (6)

24. Promptly (7)

Down

1. Matters (7)

2. Biased (7)

3. Swiss city (6) 5. Compliant (8) 6. Provide (6)

7. Story (6)

13. Fertiliser (4,4)

14. Provokes (7)

15. Reddened (7)

16. Split (6)

17. Excluded (6)

19. Collision (6)