TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Topical humour as rite,

rewritten (6)

4 Religious building, church with pale decoration (6)

9 Pride almost goes

awry (3)

10 Undergoing selection procedures is annoying away from home (6,3)

11 Young dog I left with

student (5)

12 For every smoke there’s

fragrance (7)

14 A neat player moves in area near the goal (7,4)

17 What may reflect Tom’s

viewpoint (4-3)

18 Lift light from the sun,

we hear (5)

20 As concise sort of

elevation (9)

22 Some recipient gets

baked dish (3)

23 A steer cooked for

religious festival (6) 24 Itinerant salesman is

a cyclist, we hear (6)

Down

1 Soaks when walks

about East (6)

2 Bad time for returning

soldiers (5)

3 I later turned, scoffed

and hit back (9)

5 Bird in the nest (3)

6 Get professional to

make it better (7)

7 Nimble and somewhat

graceful – it helps (5)

8 Supportive icy stem

coils round track (11)

13 Reorder back stove (9)

15 Lures some apprentice,

surreptitiously (7)

16 Remote explosion of

distant rock (6)

17 About to assess the

box (5)

19 Drive little devil to join

the Spanish (5)

21 Observe scene,

oddly (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Literary ridicule (6)

4 Place of worship (6)

9 ___ trip, self-gratifying

experience (3)

10 Sampling (6,3)

11 Apprentice barrister (5)

12 Pleasant smell (7)

14 Football field ‘box’ (7,4)

17 Highway lane

marker (4-3)

18 Bring up (5)

20 Coming to office (9)

22 ___ in the sky, optimistic but hopeless aim (3)

23 Chocolate-egg time (6)

24 Hawker, street trader (6)

Down

1 Immerses (6)

2 Scout company (5)

3 Counter-attack (9)

5 Chicken (3)

6 Acquire (7)

7 Agile (5)

8 Caring, concerned (11)

13 Change around (9)

15 Attracts (7)

16 Heavenly body (6)

17 Box (5)

19 Force forward (5)

21 Behold (3)