TWO SPEED CROSSWORD
This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clues, try the Quick.
Cryptic
Across
7. Sharp, but not chronic (5)
8. Ostracise one so unpunctual (7)
9. He exercises control and controls the exercises! (7) 10 & 2D Additional decoration on the wall outside the building (10)
12. But it’s not a tennis pavilion! (10)
15. Confiscates one’s assets – a search among the prophets is indicated (10)
18. Fashionable southern trading complex (5)
19. Disintegration in metal – this needs to be treated (7)
21. It will prevent the horseman from being footloose (7)
22. Among a variety of fleshy fruit (5)
Down
1. People are prone to use these (10)
2. See 10 Across
3. Change of direction, we hear, for a seabird (4)
4. This provides one with an opportunity for reflection (6)
5. Got back there somehow without being separated (8)
6. Exile the actors on tour? (4,3)
11. Mental lapse producing remarkably bare food allowance (10)
13. Upset open container (8)
14. Nearly everybody devoured by the octopus – that’s most unpleasant (7)
16. Vagabonds creating a racket in backstreet (6)
17. A deception difficult to make out, we hear (5)
20. In April I’m becoming a member (4)
Quick
Across
7. Keen (5)
8. Place apart (7)
9. Coach (7)
10. Additional (5)
12. Legal building (10)
15. Removes (10)
18. Clever (5)
19. Illness (7)
21. Foot rest (7)
22. Fruit (5)
Down
1. Bed parts (10)
2. Wall painting (5)
3. Bird (4)
4. Reflect (6)
5. In unison (8)
6. Ejected (4,3)
11. Deviation (10)
13. Tip up (8)
14. Dirty (7)
16. Vagrants (6)
17. Mock action (5)
20. Arm or leg (4)