TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Burden with

bicycle seat (6)

4 Snow leopards of

little weight (6)

9 Boring instrument

everyone heard (3)

10 Copy ogre’s design for

spinning wheel (9)

11 Genius without a mug (5) 12 Gang member wants expensive food with different leader! (7)

14 House seller from English

nation, a man (6,5)

17 One extra, then two,

for Land of Nod (3-4)

18 Lots, in piles (5)

20 Former kind of respite

that gives special skill (9) 22 Glide over snow in this

kingdom (3)

23 Right I’ve place on

street in struggle (6)

24 Choose the French to infiltrate religious group (6)

Down

1 Thinly scattered

boxes at the point (6)

2 Point to five led back

in search (5)

3 Fabled version of

green lady (9)

5 Pleasant times for

power in America (3)

6 Soup ingredient with

weird contour (7)

7 Direct a bull (5)

8 Top job makes him

perspire (11)

13 Boss at the dairy? (3,6) 15 More expensive and

harder to climb (7)

16 Help given in class is

tremendous (6)

17 Consecrate fewer after

first birthday (5)

19 Passageway entering

arena is leaking (5)

21 Accelerate in hire

vehicle (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Lumber (with) (6) 4 Sixteenths of a pound (6) 9 Carpenter’s tool (3) 10 Navigation aid (9) 11 German beer mug (5) 12 Hoodlum (7)

14 British name for USA’s

realtor (6,5)

17 Child’s expression for sleep 18 Large amounts (5) 20 Know-how (9)

22 Piste runner (3) 23 Endeavour (6)

24 Pick (6)

Down

1 Few and far between (6) 2 Probe, dig (5)

3 Mythical (9)

5 ___ and downs, highs

and lows (3)

6 Toasted bread cube

7 Pilot (5)

8 Office of a head of

government (11)

13 Head honcho (3,6)

15 More exorbitant (7)

16 Lend a hand (6)

17 Sanctify (5)

19 Gangway (5)

21 Speed up (an engine) (3) (7) (3-4)