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

1 & 8A Challenge and somehow sell quaint coin (4,2,8)

9. Supplant iced confection when going round the mountains backwards (8)

10. See 4 Down

12. Occasional patch which is even more colourful than a red-letter day? (6)

14. Speak in (or from) detail... (6)

15 . ... and details the conditions (6)

17. I’m about to take my hat off to the fielder (3-3)

18. Tool sounds like 18 Down (4)

19. Her underclothes go round certain felines... (8)

21 . ... and these go round certain canine (and clerical) members (3,7)

22. Matter for regret when Pisa city centre is removed (4)

Down

2. Old relic, almost, before date changed – completely out of date! (10)

3. Halt dropping (4)

4 & 10A Mathematical expression unheard of in gardening circles! (6,4)

5. Protect the hard of hearing without a conclusion (6)

6. Taken aback – it’s biting in the toboggan! (8)

7. One little editor has left country with 15 (4)

11. How to put in for a book no longer published? (3,2,5)

13. Virtuous game? (8)

16. Flexible in addition with

17 Down... (6) 17 . ... and unbalanced! (6)

18. Tots up for audition like

18 Across (4)

20. Clasp an aspirated serpent (4)

Quick Across

1. Shout (4)

8. Under discussion (2,8)

9. Move (8)

10. Tuber (4)

12. Colour (6)

14. Expand (6)

15. Governed areas (6)

17. Fielding position (3-3)

18. Hand tool (4)

19. Big cats (8)

21. Clerical neck bands (3,7)

22. Sympathy (4)

Down

2. Obsolete (10)

3. Flaccid (4)

4. Shape (6)

5. Support (6)

6. Surprised (8)

7. Entity (4)

11. No longer published (3,2,5)

13. Tolerance (8)

16. Lithe (6)

17. Of the mind (6)

18. Combines (4)

20. Metal fastening (4)