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

3 Veronica can get a move on.

OK? (9)

8 Peruse article in colour (4)

9 Idiot accepts certain evidence as

infallible (9)

10 Account book right on the

shelf (6)

11 Place where dates are

processed (5)

14 The cheek of such a US ace! (5) 15 Small dam is almost eerie (4)

16 Part of a fight in a ring (5)

18 Raise the elevator (4)

20 Divert from exercise in the

morning (5)

21 Supports understanding (5)

24 Tribes of a certain colour (6)

25 About 50 were in race and

finished (9)

26 Manager raised ornament (4)

27 Promise of rough passage as

mayor sets out (6,3)

DOWN

1 Naively alters order with

cunning (9)

2 Manacles worker who is above

strikes? (9)

4 Alternatively, being put under Post Office means lacking resources (4) 5 To consume about 150

produces a striking effect (5) 6 Fighting observed in the

capital (6)

7 Singular example of pride (4) 9 Fathead always in a state of

nervous excitement (5)

11 We hear 21 spirits (5)

12 The inference is something to

be taken away (9) 13 So no charges are preferred by

the poet? (4,5)

17 Old king saw father when about

six (5)

19 The hat that beats all others? (6) 22 No friend of obscene mystery

writers! (5)

23 Extremity of length (4)

24 Some scribe decided to copy

venerable historian (4)

Quick ACROSS

3 Flowering plant (9)

8 Peruse (4)

9 Infallible (9)

10 Book recording

transactions (6)

11 Place (5)

14 Dressing (5)

15 Low dam (4)

16 Circular (5)

18 Elevate (4)

20 Entertain (5)

21 Bottoms of the feet (5) 24 Pigment (6)

25 Finished (9)

26 Manager (4)

27 Raging ocean (6,3)

DOWN

1 Innocently (9)

2 Manacles (9)

4 Indigent (4)

5 Ostentation (5)

6 Polish capital (6)

7 Big cat (4)

9 Ague (5)

11 Spirits (5)

12 Subtraction (9)

13 Unrhymed poetry (4,5) 17 Biblical king (5)

19 Type of hat (6)

22 Foe (5)

23 Unit of length (4)

24 Venerable ---, scholarly

monk (4)