Rossendale Free Press

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

4. Part of the rigging, we hear, put in the market (3,4)

8. Edged all round and made the victim of a plot (6)

9. Refer to a certain part of the book for what has been leaked (7)

10. See 18 Across

11. Having nothing to do, I’d fish (6)

12. Literally, what any script should be (8)

18 & 10Ac. Country air (8,6)

20. Answers to charges, we hear, give satisfacti­on (6)

21. Plunder deteriorat­es (6)

22. Establishe­d genuine backing for Shake-spearian character (7)

23. A hundred surrender and show willingnes­s to make an agreement (6)

24. How people who are prepared are idly disposed (7)

Down

1. Transactio­ns associated with philandere­rs (7)

2. Showing a preference for what is not complete (7)

3. Avenge the destructio­n of Swiss location (6)

5. Debit one for taking orders (8)

6. Provide the goods with agility (6)

7. A member to finish the story (6)

13. Fertiliser made from ground skeletons (4,4)

14. Moves to action in spectacles, by the sound of it (7)

15. Showed signs of modesty, being comfortabl­e in bed! (7)

16. Separate or keep together (6)

17. The poet reportedly ostracised (6)

19. As the result of a clash, I’m wanting a treaty (6)

4. Purchasabl­e (3,4)

8. Bordered (6)

9. Leakage (7)

10. Song (6)

11. Loitering (6)

12. Legible (8)

18. Countrywid­e (8)

20. Satisfy (6)

21. Damages (6)

22. Father of Odysseus (7)

23. Agree (6)

24. Promptly (7)

Down

1. Matters (7)

2. Biased (7)

3. Swiss city (6)

5. Compliant (8)

6. Provide (6)

7. Story (6)

13. Fertiliser (4,4)

14. Provokes (7)

15. Reddened (7)

16. Split (6)

17. Excluded (6)

19. Collision (6)

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