2-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Traffic sign erected by the

socialists? (4,4)

5. Alternative letters for flex (4) 9. Clever – gets blockhead to take

drink round (4)

10. Matches won't work? (8)

11. Command a class (5)

12. Music for when students have

fun? (7)

13. Will serve as a gift at this

time (3,3,7) 18. Royal Automobile Club cared

about record of runners (4,4) 19. Eager to help about five (4) 20. Carefully look at returned axe

belonging to me (7)

21. Questionable – like an angler's

tale? (5)

22. Quantity thus given to the first

person (4)

23. The usual flag (8)

Down

2. Prohibition – leave when you've

got me back to the bar! (7) 3. Excuse before biblical

quotation (7) 4. Ideal prospects, despite being

tense after 13? (6,7)

6. Former 8 period (3-4)

7. Cut up little Diana's religious

group (7)

8. Not a better half? (6)

13. Counterfeiting blacksmiths? (7) 14. To get back could be a

miracle (7)

15. Angry, the C-i-C is extremely

busy (6)

16. Ocean flier arrived as bride

changed (7)

17. In a fashion, therein both are

excluded (7)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Odd (8)

5. Just (4)

9. Bill of fare (4) 10. Seemed (8) 11. Less (5)

12. Entangle (7) 13. Sympathy (6,7) 18. Completely (8) 19. Large town (4) 20. Disorder (7) 21. Rebuffs (5) 22. Unintelligent (4) 23. Critic (8)

Down

2. Hermit (7) 3. Strange (7) 4. Cherished

thing (5,2,3,3) 6. Deductively (1,6) 7. Danger signal (3,4) 8. Weak (6)

13. Inundated (7) 14. To the letter (7) 15. East (6)

16. A permit (7)

17. Memorable (7)