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Two Speed Crossword

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This two-speed crossword has two sets of 1 clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clue, try the Quick.

Cryptic Across

1. Assiduous with food for the road (12)

7. No walker to travel by the right (5)

8. Dance showing a little decorum, basically (5)

9. See 20 Down.

10. Bird getting short measure with husks of corn (9)

11. Setting a problem – that’s what the model’s doing (6)

12. Exclude from the public house? (6)

15. Asteroids affected by communicat­ions equipment (5-4)

17. Patriarch in angelic surroundin­gs (3)

18. Bad verse is cut (5)

19. In this way the cover is substantia­l (5)

21. They offer different ways to convert the locals! (12)

Down

1. Stylistic piece or writing – seraph, for example! (4,2,6)

2. No modern style is so fashioned (3)

3. Language used in longer manuscript (6)

4. Insects dissipatin­g life in conflagrat­ions (9)

5. Describing a capitalist on the Tiber (5)

6. Paternalis­m produces rows among parents! (12)

7. Neckwear for hooligans, we hear (5)

10. Assembly made up of a hundred on the race-track (9)

13. The kind of fruit that provides staple food (5)

14. This instructs Noel to return round the ship (6)

16. Nick survived when coming back (5)

20 & 9Ac. Discharged, but not penalised (3,3)

Quick Across

6

1. Street (12)

7. Jockey (5)

8. Dance (5)

9. Deactivate­d (3)

10. Bird (9)

11. Sitting (6)

12. Expel (6)

15. Wirelesses (5-4)

17. Old Testament priest (3)

18. Separate (5)

19. Sound (5)

21. Options (12)

Down

1. Manner of expression (4,2,6)

2. Elderly (3)

3. European (6)

4. Glowing beetles (9)

5. Ancient Italian (5)

6. Paternalis­m (12)

7. Pleated collars (5)

10. Crowd (9)

13. Baked food (5)

14. Tutorial (6)

16. Satan (5)

20. Allow (3)

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