Last week’s solutions

2-SPEED CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 3 Impostors; 8 Term; 9 Comes into; 10 Number; 11 Named; 14 Paste; 15 Damp; 16 Sight; 18 Punt; 20 Angle; 21 Gross; 24 Sorrow; 25 Manifesto; 26 Dual; 27 Programme.

Down: 1 Standpipe; 2 Promising; 4 Moor; 5 Omega; 6 Tailed; 7 Rate; 9 Ceres; 11 Negus; 12 Dangerous; 13 Speedwell; 17 Taboo; 19 Trying; 22 Siena; 23 Pair; 24 Stem.

Quick: Across: 3 Qualified; 8 Nail; 9 Castigate; 10 Occurs; 11 Fears; 14 Reels; 15 Echo; 16 Smash; 18 Chic; 20 Apple; 21 Table; 24 Strict; 25 Nonentity; 26 Hail; 27 Persisted. Down: 1 Incorrect; 2 Discredit; 4 Upas; 5 Lithe; 6 Figure; 7 Eats; 9 Cross; 11 Flame; 12 Sceptical; 13 Forestall; 17 Hasty; 19 Caress; 22 Lotus; 23 Core; 24 Stye. WORD SPIRAL: 1 Lair; 2 Rust; 3 Then; 4 Neon; 5 Noon; 6 Nous; 7 Suds; 8 Seed; 9 Dash; 10 Hero; 11 Oast; 12 Taco; 13 Oche; 14 Etui; 15 Idea; 16 Abel.

Keyword: SHELDON.

WORD WHEEL: THRESHOLD. CODEWORD: 1=N, 2=S, 3=H, 4=M, 5=B, 6=R, 7=J, 8=A, 9=P, 10=F, 11=K, 12=X, 13=L, 14=U, 15=C, 16=Q, 17=V, 18=D, 19=T, 20=G, 21=O, 22=Z, 23=E, 24=W, 25=I, 26=Y.

SHOWBIZ QUIZ: 1 The Real Marigold Hotel; 2 A Very Secret Service; 3 Rick Astley; 4 Patricia Routledge; 5 Age before Beauty; 6 The Vamps; 7 A Few Good Men; 8 Secrets of Cinema; 9 Space Oddity; 10 John David Washington.