Last week’s solutions

2-SPEED CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Keep left; 5 Cord; 9 Able; 10 Strikers; 11 Order; 12 Ragtime; 13 For the present; 18 Race card; 19 Avid; 20 Examine; 21 Fishy; 22 Some; 23 Standard. Down: 2 Embargo; 3 Pretext; 4 Future perfect; 6 One-time; 7 Dissect; 8 Single; 13 Forgers; 14 Reclaim; 15 Hectic; 16 Seabird; 17 Neither.

Quick: Across: 1 Peculiar; 5 Fair; 9 Menu; 10 Appeared; 11 Minus; 12 Embroil; 13 Fellow feeling; 18 Outright; 19 City; 20 Derange; 21 Snubs; 22 Dull; 23 Reviewer. Down: 2 Eremite; 3 Unusual; 4 Apple of the eye; 6 A priori; 7 Red flag; 8 Feeble; 13 Flooded; 14 Literal; 15 Orient; 16 Licence; 17 Notable.

WORD SPIRAL: 1 Veil; 2 Lamb; 3 Bung; 4 Gawp; 5 Peck; 6 Kerb; 7 Bald; 8 Dart; 9 Tank; 10 Keen; 11 Nous; 12 Seal; 13 Loot; 14 Tell; 15 Lisp; 16 Pawn.

Keyword: DOWNING.

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

SHOWBIZ QUIZ: 1 In the Dark; 2 Scott Lang/Ant-Man; 3 Evangeline Lilly; 4 Peaky Blinders; 5 Jasmine; 6 Mid90s; 7 Regina Spektor; 8 Old Town Road; 9 The Chemical Brothers; 10 Apache.

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