TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD Cryptic

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

ACROSS 1

Gas is ordered by people in secret meeting (11)

9 Gave up work and went to

bed (7)

10 Part of book that could prove

chilling? (5)

11 Eager to be in harmony (5)

12 Nevertheless in very recent

baby’s outfit (7)

13 Miner has no right to dog (6)

15 The first of them to publish

interwoven series (6)

18 Conceited because firmly

placed in a high position? (5-2) 20 Rise to be a candidate? (5)

22 Bestow half then owing (5)

23 Cause to sink deeply, earning

review (7)

24 Give a jail sentence now (7,4)

DOWN

2 Woodland deity held up in

elementary task (5)

3 Odd serial number from

Jerusalem, perhaps (7)

4 Holding head in hands, open

odd letter (6)

5 Irritable on examination? (5) 6 Poet is a distributor of

drugs (7) 7 Does he choose a wide range of actors to go on the air? (11)

8 Even grinned without

stopping (5-6)

14 The French go below to

wash (7) 16 Intelligent grasp able to be

seen (7)

17 The organ of ill temper (6) 19 They may knock at the door

of an ogre (5)

21 Consternation in several

army units (5)

ACROSS

1 Arrangement to

meet (11)

9 Went to bed (7)

10 Backbone (5)

11 Concur (5)

12 Set of baby articles (7) 13 Sheepdog (6)

15 Paper handkerchief (6) 18 Snobbish (5-2)

20 Rise (5)

22 Invest (5)

23 Instil (7)

24 Now (7,4)

DOWN

2 Sylvan deity (5)

3 Middle Eastern

person (7)

4 Head (6)

5 Touchy (5)

6 Narcotics (7)

7 Radio presenter (11) 8 Eternal (5-6)

14 Wash clothes (7)

16 Penetration (7)

17 Organ (6)

19 Leg joints (5)

21 Siren (5)