TWO SPEED CROSSWORD
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)