Last week’s solutions

2-SPEED CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Rare; 3 Threaded; 8 Veto; 9 Sing-sing; 11 Serve at table; 13 Oyster; 14 Tickle; 17 Estate agents; 20 Aptitude; 21 Aria; 22 Departed; 23 Edge. Down: 1 Revision; 2 Returns; 4 Hoists; 5 Engravings; 6 Drill; 7 Digs; 10 Benefactor; 12 Seascape; 15 Kindred; 16 Needle; 18 Sit up; 19 Band.

Quick: Across: 1 Slim; 3 Cauldron; 8 Axle; 9 Probable; 11 Overpowering; 13 Resist; 14 Stable; 17 Demonstrated; 20 Isolated; 21 Zero; 22 Prevents; 23 Snug. Down: 1 Seaboard; 2 Illness; 4 Arrows; 5 Laboratory; 6 Robin; 7 Need; 10 Episcopate; 12 Headlong; 15 Between; 16 Assent; 18 Evoke; 19 Limp.

WORD SPIRAL: 1 Poor; 2 Reef; 3 Fuss; 4 Smog; 5 Gear; 6 Rash; 7 Hard; 8 Deep; 9 Plum; 10 Maze; 11 Edgy; 12 Yeti; 13 Iron; 14 Neat; 15 Trap; 16 Polo.

Keyword: DOLORES.

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

SHOWBIZ QUIZ: 1 Miriam’s Dead Good Adventure; 2 ‘Secrets of the Multi-Level Millionaires’; 3 Hard To Please OAPs; 4 Godzilla (King of the Monsters); 5 Ad Astra; 6 Ben Kingsley; 7 Tom Cruise; 8 George Ezra; 9 Bastille; 10 Florence + the Machine. SUDOKU: