2-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Shipping trade (5)

4. Take a trip (7)

8. Where to see women in retreat (7)

9. Finishing off a cake? (5) 10. Birds slow to change (4) 11. He could be grounded and in trouble (8)

13. Assemble in the mother ship (4) 14. Part of a business house reserved for the employer (4) 16. Dismissed just for being unqualified (8)

17. Form of transport levy that's imposed on one (4) 20. Country taking in reciprocal aid (5)

21. Eggs turn into cheers (7) 22. Objectives a sailor acquires (7) 23. Support for the board (5)

Down

1. Twister making an honest living (13)

2. Abolish article from a yearbook (5)

3. A row in the amphitheatre (4) 4. Uttering an adage (6)

5. All that is sure, perhaps, about a tangled vine (8)

6. He may put up a house for sale (7) 7. Continuous bleep or a ring, perhaps (7,6)

12. Reckon I'm splitting the estate (8) 13. He produces his pass when he's being charged (7) 15. Photographs new plants (6) 18. Make staid entrances (5) 19. We hold a note for payment (4)