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TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
1 Got hold of broken
red cues (7)
5 Not having enough
for a drink (5)
8 Respond by
removing trace (5)
9 Cup that girl placed
under church (7)
10 Joseph kept back coin in
South America (4)
11 Powerless rascal
with no shelter? (8)
13 Tart quality produces awfully nasty cringe (11)
17 Napalm, eg, complex
strategy (4,4)
19 Body parts are right,
in wild sea (4)
21 Fall over on spilt oil
in city (7)
22 Sound of organ,
one inside (5)
23 Beefy guide (5)
24 Developing smell
of sodium? (7)
Down
1 Priest designed
a mark of rank (6)
2 Branch assistant
displays part of car (7)
3 Schedule includes helicopter blade, we hear (4)
4 Medic not a minute out with official papers (13)
5 With toy vase broken, right to stop the night (4,4)
6 Suggest old timber (5)
7 Score in result went
yesterday (6)
12 Exit downstage (8)
14 Poison blue fish (7)
15 Gems hidden in bag
at estate (6)
16 View of snake etc,
ruined (6)
18 Corn plant, one seen
in labyrinth (5)
20 Obligation of extra money is a non-starter (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
1 Made safe (7)
5 Opposite of ‘long’ (5)
8 Behave (5)
9 Communion cup (7)
10 100 centavos, in Mexico (4)
11 Ineffective, incapable (8)
13 Caustic quality (11)
17 Campaign strategy (4,4)
19 Bodily organs that detect
sound (4)
21 Capital city of Libya (7)
22 Cacophony (5)
23 Bullock (5)
24 Coming into being (7)
Down
1 Band of colour (6)
2 Steel frame of a motor
vehicle (7)
3 Cycle of duties (4)
4 Written details accompanying
a product (13)
5 Sleep at a friend’s
house (4,4)
6 Express a point of view (5)
7 Five times four (6)
12 Hinged panel in a ceiling (8)
14 Poisonous substance (7)
15 Quartz stones (6)
16 Appearance or feature (6)
18 Cereal grain (5)
20 Burden (4)