Last week’s solutions

2-SPEED CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Impact; 4 Knocks; 9 Steering wheel; 10 Crossed; 11 Elude; 12 Adore; 14 Debar; 18 Tarts; 19 Decline; 21 Window cleaner; 22 Dreads; 23 Stalls. Down: 1 Insect; 2 Preponderance; 3 Cards; 5 Nowhere; 6 Coeducational; 7 Solver; 8 Anode; 13 Respond; 15 Stowed; 16 Edict; 17 Hearts; 20 Crest.

Quick: Across: 1 Impose; 4 Compel; 9 Pervasiveness; 10 Drastic; 11 Raise; 12 Adore; 14 Undue; 18 Class; 19 Excused; 21 Accident-prone; 22 Enlist; 23 Arrest. Down: 1 Impede; 2 Part and parcel; 3 Smart; 5 Overrun; 6 Precious-stone; 7 Lessen; 8 Since; 13 Resides; 15 Scrape; 16 Means; 17 Advent; 20 Caper.

WORD SPIRAL: 1 Toga; 2 Amid; 3 Down; 4 Next; 5 Team; 6 Male; 7 Eros; 8 Seem; 9 Mild; 10 Dodo; 11 Opal; 12 Lima; 13 Ache; 14 Ergo; 15 Once; 16 Elan.

Keyword: SHANNON.

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

SHOWBIZ QUIZ: 1 Emilia Fox; 2 Sara Bareilles; 3 The Victim; 4 The Lumineers; 5 Bread; 6 Robin Wright; 7 Shrek; 8 Broadcast News; 9 Joker; 10 The Hustle.

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