Bristol Post

TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

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Cryptic

1. Where one goes to get rid of ill feelings (6,6)

7. An upright group of employees (5)

8. A smart kind of accent (5)

9. The girl loses her head. Help! (3)

10. Finished after only half the distance – stretched out (9)

11. Father and mother going round an American republic (6)

12. Craftily manipulate the western viewpoint (6)

15. Once tried to be obscure (9)

17. A bit of twentieth-century espionage? Certainly (3)

18. Sound reason for jangled nerves (5)

19. Put a watch on (5)

21. Produces a firm basis – cost on deal is revised (12)

1. Seemingly, he must succeed (4,8)

2. From which one drives, we hear, for a light meal (3)

3. Don’t accept what has been rejected (6)

4. This position on the board is far from new, chum (9)

5. A game of golf for the canon (5)

6. Those who give notice can’t be accused of this (12)

7. Used another chair inside (5)

10. Bullies those who work around the pit (9)

13. Made fun of the conductor, we hear (5)

14. Weapon for one in complicate­d plots (6)

16. Capital needed for company about to broadcast (5)

20. Mother comes back in a frenzy (3)

Quick

1. Spa (6,6)

7. Personnel (5)

8. Sharp (5)

9. Assist (3)

10. Expanded (9)

11. Central American country (6)

12. Manipulate (6)

15. Abstruse (9)

17. Affirmativ­e (3)

18. Sound (5)

19. Measured the duration (5)

21. Unites (12)

Down

1. Rightful successor (4,8)

2. Beverage (3)

3. Rubbish (6)

4. Deadlock (9)

5. Circular (5)

6. Carelessne­ss (12)

7. French town (5)

10. Tyrannises (9)

13. Ridiculed (5)

14. Handgun (6)

16. Egyptian capital (5)

20. Frantic (3))

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