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)