TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the two-speed crossword – both lead to the same answers.

CRYPTIC

Across

1. Fortieth girl (4) 3. Intimations sent to a

professor in confusion (8) 9. One who serves his time (7) 10. Lightweight creature (5) 11. The setting for a bolt

from the blue! (12) 13. Standard displayed by an

early French invader (6) 15. Tradesman who will

give you a hand (6) 17. Where horse-trading

takes place? (5,7) 20. Make a surgical

incision clean! (5) 21. Mean to balance one

extreme with another (7) 22. What the defendant advances

with certain satisfaction (8) 23. Let it stay fixed round the tee (4)

Down

1. Making another quotation for

giving a poetic performance (8) 2. African veto as well, by

the sound of it (5) 4. Complete extract from the

Testament I read (6) 5. Valiant but suffering from fatty

cardiac condition? (5-7) 6. It’s not unusual to be an

army commander (7) 7. Make a hash of the fishpond (4) 8. Flying observers! (12) 12. Growing to be full

during the month (8) 14. Re-unite the following

for a change (7) 16. I’m coming with two more to

have a damaging effect (6) 18. No longer a stage turn,

to be precise (5) 19. Mates coming back to strike (4)

QUICK Across

1. Gemstone (4) 3. Communications (8) 9. Prisoner (7) 10. Weight unit (5) 11. Weather feature (12) 13. Man’s name (6) 15. Trader (6) 17. Securities exchanges (5,7) 20. Weapon (5) 21. Normal (7) 22. Enjoyment (8) 23. Printing mark (4)

Down

1. Repeating (8) 2. African language group (5) 4. Whole (6) 5. Brave (5-7) 6. Common (7) 7. Simmer (4) 8. Ornithologists (12) 12. Moon’s quarter (8) 14. Cortege (7) 16. Reduce (6) 18. Precise (5) 19. Smack (4)