TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

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

Cryptic

ACROSS

1 Near a quiet road (5)

4 Panicked and ran off without quiet father returning (7)

They’re weighed at sea (7) Handy trees? (5) Exhaust or another car part, say (4) Adolescent having to generate change (8) One stopping in Ireland? (4) The animal left one on (4) Nonentities can make murder cases hard to solve (8)

Prime Minister of Paradise? (4)

Bird going over the Rhone (5)

One providing food in a terrace, possibly (7) Snooker players who might get cups (7)

In which place we take the girl in (5) 8 9 10

11

13 14 16

17 20 21 22 23

DOWN 1

Ability of an artisan to get on a boat (13) 2 3 4 5 6

Part of Mr Magoo’s cartoon gets an Academy Award (5)

Memo about a famous school (4)

He doesn’t eat more quickly (6) Supplement taken out in the theatre (8)

The parrot has flown off, I hear – there are many sides to it (7) 7 12 13 15 18 19

She tends to cover a certain area (8,5) Woman showing discretion (8) Naked in new act for the floorshow (7) Fights with dealers in stolen goods (6) Note in awful mourning song (5)

Dish the moderates served up (4)

Quick

ACROSS

1 Near (5)

4 Moved up and down (7) Mooring devices (7) Hand parts (5) Make weary (4) Adolescent (8) Bottle stopper (4) Big cat (4) Insignificant people (8) Biblical garden (4) Wading bird (5) One who provides food (7) Earthenware workers (7)

In which place (5) 8 9 10 11 13 14 16

17 20 21

22 23

DOWN

1 Artistic skill (13)

2 Academy Award (5)

3 English school (4)

4 More speedy (6)

5 Addition (8)

6 Many-sided figure (7) 7 Health visitor (8,5)

12 Caution (8)

13 Floorshow (7)

15 Barriers (6)

18 Lament (5)

19 Casserole (4)

WORD WISE

The word may sound familiar, but do you know what it means?

1 CLAUSTRAL

A Disabled

B Secluded

C Composed of fragments

2 THESPIAN

A B C

Law-giver A serf An actor