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. To succeed in getting round public relations officer will cause censure (8)
5. The pace of the first episode (4) 9 & 10A Capital billets for
operational base (12)
10. See 9 Across
11. A noise near an attractive
tree (5)
12. Croaker Junior! (7)
13. Showing signs of having been
stormily attacked (7-6)
18. Could it be illumination in a
Roman Catholic church? (3,5) 19 & 6D Fail to take an opportunity – that’s what defaulting sailors do (4,3,4) 20. One of the coaches for the
race in trouble (7)
21. Joint made from southern
wood (5)
22. A hundred in established
denomination (4)
23. Excluded, having been freed
from prison? (8)
Down
2. Unpleasant thing I spotted by
its sound (7)
3. Make a new plan of revolutionary kind of water transport (7) 4. One who figures the cost of a
retaliatory attack (13)
6. See 19 Across 7. Advertisement on northern
gate (7)
8. From which the captain
controls the game (6) 13. This war will upset the
spirits (7)
14. One variety of chair in a
hundred is antique (7)
15. Distance from the base (6) 16. This will indicate what power
is available (7)
17. Put in bonds (7)
Quick Across
1. Rebuke (8)
5. Stair (4)
9. Front (4)
10. Fractions (8)
11. Mountain ash (5)
12. Frogs’ larva (7)
13. Tanned (7-6)
18. Electric lamp (3,5)
19. & 6D Lose an
opportunity (4,3,4)
20. Tutor (7)
21. Cut of beef (5)
22. Cult (4)
23. Excluded (8)
Down
2. Ugly sight (7)
3. Write again (7)
4. Retaliatory action (13)
6. See 19 Across
7. Back door (7)
8. Span (6)
13. Ghosts (7)
14. Ancient (7)
15. Altitude (6)
16. Electric current measurer (7) 17. Subjugate (7)
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