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 Top-ranking directors are

right (9)

8 It can be seen in the Arctic every

day (3)

9 In all honesty it’s the wrong

thing to have in such purses (11)

11 One calls for a migratory bird (7)

12 Possibly bears a sword (5)

13 Take up the summary again? (6)

15 The captain’s game stand? (6)

17 What’s wrong? A failure to hit

the target (5)

18 Old officer belonging to times

long past (7)

20 Sort of bet it’s a battery (11)

22 Allowed to be rented out (3)

23 Police try to ruffle bard (5,4)

DOWN 2

The rubbish dump is the very end (3)

3 It’s great rising to a stubborn,

intolerant person (5)

4 Dessert right out of the roof

timbers (6)

5 Kitchen rather than bedroom

furniture (7)

6 Ignoring instructions in bed, so

diet is wrong (11)

7 Act again now (9) 10 Uses ice tart somehow to

revive (11)

11 Give it several changes – it’s

adaptable (9)

14 Noted false US claim (7)

16 Sort of person to cultivate,

perhaps (6)

Quick ACROSS

1 Right side of a ship (9)

8 Frozen water (3)

9 Honesty (11)

11 Caller (7)

12 Sword (5)

13 Begin again (6)

15 Card game (6)

17 Wrong (5)

18 Aged (7)

20 Collective bet (11)

22 Permit (3)

23 Ode writer (5,4)

DOWN

2 Gratuity (3)

3 Intolerant person (5)

4 Dessert, informally (6)

5 Furniture item (7)

6 Naughty (11)

7 Portray (9)

10 Revive (11)

19 In the disco, licentious 11 Adaptable (9) person gets stomach 14 Play featuring singing pains! (5) and dancing (7)

21 Nothing you and I are expected to pay (3) 16 Agriculturalist (6)

19 Stomach pain (5)

21 Be in debt (3)