TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Make carp oatmeal into

painkiller (11)

8 What doctors do before

leaving writer (6)

9 Not likely to catch disease from menu

I’m preparing (6)

10 Fog avoided, we

hear (4)

11 Loudly beseeches

insect, hallelujah! (6,2)

13 Small bird with the

French name (5)

15 Literary attempt (5)

18 Surgical sutures on street causes irritation (8)

19 We hear leading

tennis player give up (4)

20 Back in section of the deep-freeze, ensuring cold symptom (6)

21 Tiny returns on a group of pack animals (6)

22 The army perk new at

large store (11)

Down

2 This vicar could be

record holder (9)

3 A leaning towards

celebrities (1-4)

4 Free old partner, almost

worthless (6)

5 Creature turns into

salami, naturally! (6)

6 Liquid diffusion is so, so complicated around end of stem (7)

7 Garden party where

fortune told (4)

12 Dame Garbo playing draughts, maybe (5,4)

14 Chance to see river mammal in both ends of library (7)

16 Food for big important

person? (6)

17 Youth leader in a squalid property finds sanctuary (6)

18 Band in Kansas,

here (4)

19 During March, aired

the seat (5)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Tablet to get rid of

a headache (11)

8 Ancient public clerk (6)

9 Able to resist infection (6)

10 Light spray (4)

11 Exclamation of pious

gratitude (6,2)

13 Appellation (5)

15 Academic piece of writing (5)

18 In ___, laughing helplessly (8)

19 Forgo (4)

20 Action to which the response

is ‘Bless you!’ (6)

21 South American ruminants (6)

22 Vast retail facility (11)

Down

2 Person in charge of

maintaining records (9)

3 Belonging to the elite (of

celebrities) (1-4)

4 Absolved (6)

5 ___ Farm, Orwell novel (6)

6 Gradual process of assimilation

or absorption (7)

7 Bazaar (4)

12 Chess or ludo, eg (5,4)

14 National fund-raising raffle (7)

16 ___ and onion, crisp flavour (6)

17 Place of refuge (6)

18 Cloth worn around the waist (4)

19 Item of furniture (5)