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

6 Games for strikers (7)

7 Arrived and left on a ship

of the desert (5)

9 Unadorned one in a

scheme (5)

10 Change the policemen (7) 12 Tube that isn’t fine

enough? (11)

14 Getting insurance and making for a safe place (6,5)

18 I raced against a man from

the Middle East (7)

19 Obese man can be

deadly (5)

21 Mother-of-pearl from a

northern area (5)

22 Small bunch of flowers that

may droop in the centre (7)

DOWN 1

Culpability for poor service? (5)

2 A tonic might produce

movement (6)

3 Jewel Margaret returned (3) 4 Pop has written about a

Greek poetess (6)

5 Being informed of a

trial (7)

8 What an archer takes when given protracted applause? (7)

11 European upsetting

Bengali (7)

13 Just a method of getting

part of a golfcourse (7) 15 Take no notice of a

different region (6)

16 Please get out and pass

by (6)

17 Vehicle having to leave

freight (5)

20 A great deal sold at

auction (3)

Quick

ACROSS

6 Corresponds (7)

7 Ship of the desert (5) 9 Treeless region (5)

10 One and two pence

coins (7)

12 Subterranean (11)

14 Sheltering (6,5)

18 Middle Eastern

person (7)

19 Lethal (5)

21 Mother-of-pearl (5) 22 Woman’s

buttonhole (7)

DOWN

1 Defect (5)

2 Deed (6)

3 Jewel (3)

4 Greek poetess (6)

5 One of the senses (7) 8 Weapon (7)

11 European (7)

13 Part of a golf

course (7)

15 Disregard (6)

16 Pass by (6)

17 Freight (5)

20 Auction item (3)