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. Agreement prepared for

conveyance, we hear (4) 3. Sidesman? (8)

8. A complete defeat for the

rabble (4)

9. Taking part in industrial unrest

is attractive (8)

11. Frustrated – having been

relieved of office? (12)

13. Trim the conifer (6)

14. Some of the doctored rumpunch put back to cause fatal results (6)

17. Would their activities end with

a mating call? (5,7)

20. Deliberate destruction of red

coins (8)

21. Convivial association for the

driver (4)

22. Opposed changing into a

dress tie (8)

23. What artists do to create an

attraction (4)

Down

1. A delightful place to be is in a

public promenade (8)

2. The kind of weight for one

that sails into the fight! (7) 4. Gesture that produces court

proceedings (6) 5. Describing the sort of figure that is eternally intriguing? (10)

6. Something that sticks in the

back (5)

7. Not far from endless

darkness (4)

10. Unearthly clothing to fit in the

gaps (10) 12. Weapon to reach the other

side of the arch (8)

15. He stays permanently healthy

in revolutionary uprising (7) 16. A field of activity for a

planet (6)

18. Among the smooth and

silvery palms (5)

19. Mark shows unending alarm (4)