Loughborough Echo

TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

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This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clues, try the Quick.

Cryptic Across

1. Describing one who has gone to pot? (5)

4. This sort of job has no lively conclusion (4,3)

8. They keep arms under cover (7)

9. Causes instabilit­y in geological strata (5)

10. A particular part of the site moved (4)

11. Not in good health, but having achieved a betterthan-average golf score (5,3)

13. Investigat­es those who deal with beastly complaints (4)

14. Burden supported by you and me (4)

16. Destined to be in poor health? (3-5)

17. Apartment not blown up (4) 20 & 19D The tea bar is ruined

by pulsating action (9)

21. She is bound to be fleeced eventually (3,4)

22. Took a fatal plunge? (7)

23. In an instant he recalled that place (5)

Down

1. Made out to be famous (13)

2. It sounds like lack of hostility for a bit (5)

3. Pacific bird (4)

4. Scatter five hundred untidy piles (6)

5. Transporte­d in an unearthly fashion (8)

6. Freedom flights that sometimes follow the fire (7)

7. Descriptiv­e of one who will not be allowed to have an overdraft? (13)

12. Put into difficulti­es – remove any crooked tendencies, we hear (8)

13. When this is extinct, upheavals will cease (7)

15. Resist a charge in trying circumstan­ces (6)

18. Don’t disturb a holiday (5)

19. See 20 Across

Quick Across

1. Drugged (5)

4. Cul-de-sac (4,3)

8. Record covers (7)

9. Boulders (5)

10. Thing (4)

11. Out of sorts (5,3)

13. Animal doctors (4)

14. Responsibi­lity (4)

16. Doomed (3-5)

17. Level (4)

20. Organ (5)

21. Young female sheep (3,4)

22. Submerged (7)

23. In that place (5)

Down

1. Noble (13)

2. Small part (5)

3. Bird (4)

4. Disperse (6)

5. Conveyed through atmosphere (8)

6. Eludes (7)

7. Shameful (13)

12. Limit (8)

13. Erupting mountain (7)

15. Protect (6)

18. Depart (5)

19. Strike (4)

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