TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD Cryptic

This two-speed crossword has two sets of clues, but just one grid. If you can’t solve the Cryptic clues, try the Quick.

ACROSS 6

7

To escape – nonsense! (7)

One who reaches his highest point at work (5)

9 Once a sort of boat (5)

10 Graduate in rather costly preeminent position (7)

12 Church leader’s at home with

serious transgression (8,3)

14 Worker finds help among

fellows’ female servants (11)

18 Close agreement, it would

seem (7)

19 Religious leader finds sailor

with a missing boat (5)

21 Display of temper on stage? (5) 22 Verdict justifying the search?

(7)

DOWN 1

Hold up the Spanish within 24 hours (5)

2 Father takes a canine up to the

temple (6)

3 Fighting rising, though

inexperienced (3)

4 Miserable maids lost by lake (6) 5 Cult’s leader at one time taking

it to mean bigheadedness (7)

8 A garden laid out in the West

Indies (7) 11 Make progress through a

loan (7)

13 Army officer picks up

account in Spanish island (7) 15 Girl had pen broken (6) 16 Only the head of a

nonentity? (6)

17 Certain to be tied up (5)

20 Is it a blow when it’s a great

success? (3)

Quick

ACROSS

6 Act of escaping (7)

7 Aviator (5)

9 Light boat (5)

10 State of being first (7) 12 Moral offence (8,3)

14 Female servants (11) 18 Dense (7)

19 Monks’ superior (5) 21 Play part (5)

22 Locating (7)

DOWN

1 Postpone (5)

2 Oriental temple (6)

3 Uncooked (3)

4 Dreary (6)

5 Vanity (7)

8 Caribbean island (7)

11 Move forward (7)

13 Spanish island (7)

15 Girl’s name (6)

16 Insignificant person (6) 17 Leap (5)

20 Strike (3)