2-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

7. Father coming back with a friend to cause dismay (5) 8. Caterer to go back the same way, maybe (7) 9. Showing resilience after a stretch (7) 10. In the local I found a potentate (5) 12. The same rebels get together again somehow (10) 15. See 17 Down 18. See 20 Down 19. So a ring is diverted to foreign lady (7) 21. Scorn said to appear differently in a row (7) 22. Keyed up for action for a certain time (5)

Down

1. What soldiers, clerics and travellers do (4,6) 2. Use a hose on a cluster of flowers (5) 3. Scheme to put fifty in the vessel (4) 4. See 16 Down 5. They won't give up a watch in the ship (8) 6. Little jumper the bounder put back in style! (7) 11. Food put in the meadows for birds (10) 13. Make one a pure continental (8) 14. Faithless one shows part of what he is thinking (7) 16 & 4Dn. They're the cause of rate increases (6,6) 17 & 15Ac. The amalgamation of two butchery businesses? (5,10) 20 & 18Ac. Peg to lose consciousness in a way (2,2,5)

Quick crossword answers also fit the large grid.

QUICK CLUES: Across

7. Chide (5) 8. Intrusions (7) 9. Prominent (7) 10. Form (5) 12. Reporter (10) 15. Infertility (10) 18. Dispossess (5) 19. Tiny tot (7) 21. Spokesman (7) 22. Category (5)

Down

1. Pretended (10) 2. Compact (5) 3. Border (4) 4. Strain (6) 5. Encroach (8) 6. Devilish (7) 11. Undertaking (10) 13. Pass (8) 14. Umpire (7) 16. Character (6) 17. Exposed (5) 20. Curtail (4)