Birmingham Post

Two Speed Crossword Quick

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

Cryptic Across

1. Get a smart plan rearranged (9)

8. Beat a tailless young creature (3)

9. Seeing after a short time the gift of the prophet (6-5)

11. The fellow precedes the girl, we hear – that’s not natural (3-4)

12. She goes to bed to work (5)

13. A sharp pain produced by a needle (6)

15. Injury will make mother go grey (6)

17. Requires to change from being dense (5)

18. A trip to disturb the country lover (7)

20. Becoming slower in playing – all ran to end confusion (11)

22. A way for the French to show regret (3)

23. Sauntering and turning round at the end of the street (9)

Down

In the event I expect to level the scores (3)

Pacific island conveyance (5) This is used for heating fuel on the plane (3-3)

A battle colour (7) A matter of taking it in turns to convert a whole people (11)

Tool to put to some use (9)

10. Small measures – a hundred interest me in an unusual way (11)

11. Give wrong informatio­n to girl in class, we hear (9)

14. As men on the board, they should be impregnabl­e (7)

16. Sounds like a member of the nobility to come on stage (6)

19. Add up nearly everything – and that’s the lot (5) Spaniard almost exhausted (3)

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Across

1. Plan (9)

8. Thrash (3)

9. Clairvoyan­ce (6-5)

11. Artificial (3-4)

12. Hospital worker (5)

13. Sew (6)

15. Harm (6)

17. Requires (5)

18. Nationalis­t (7)

20. Musical term for becoming slower (11)

22. Regret (3)

23. Ambling (9)

Down

2. Bind (3)

3. Pacific kingdom (5)

4. Fuel burner (3-3)

5. Purplish-red (7)

6. Successive change (11)

7. Utensil (9)

10. Units of measuremen­t (11)

11. Tell wrongly (9)

14. Fortresses (7)

16. Seem (6)

19. Whole (5)

21. University lecturer (3)

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