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. Hosts having many private

lines (6) 4. Hoboes making a racket in

back street (6) 9. Descriptive of water

current! (13) 10. Corresponds with what

strikers use (7) 11. Indirect remark to a team (5) 12. Kind of layer found on the

building site (5) 14. I’m taking a long time to

create an idea (5) 18. A different shape for stacks (5) 19. Likely to be resolved by

physics (7) 21. Forebodings before

emotional feelings? (13) 22. A piece of material in

ingenious tailoring (6) 23. Kinsman puts us in the

money (6) Down 1. Not on holiday for the

reception (2-4) 2. Could be just the place for a

tender marine (13) 3. Name once changed by the

aspirate (5) 5. To do this to a lost soul could

be a miracle (7) 6. But they don’t forbid the

wedding! (8,5) 7. Service having no publicity

agents! (6) 8. Grade the girl below a

hundred (5) 13. Its contents are tapped by

washers (7) 15. Where the faithful give their

services (6) 16. A quaintly pleasing kind of

accent (5) 17. Allowed to transgress –

makes an admission (4,2) 20. He had a great love for

capital and nothing more (5)

Quick Across

1. Groups of soldiers (6) 4. Vagrants (6) 9. Water pressure generated (13) 10. Games (7) 11. Stage whisper (5) 12. Block of clay (5) 14. Picture (5) 18. Piles (5) 19. Capable of being healed (7) 21. Premonitions (13) 22. Interior covering (6) 23. Relative (6)

Down

1. Open day (2-4) 2. European sea (13) 3. Boy’s name (5) 5. Take back (7) 6. Wedding declaration (8,5) 7. Confidential (6) 8. Form (5) 13. Water-storage tank (7) 15. Place of worship (6) 16. Keen (5) 17. Admits (4,2) 20. Shakespearian lover (5)