TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Bet it’s an electric

cell (11)

8 Alters concoction that’s

less fresh (6)

9 Beachcomber’s find? That is a water sprite (6)

10 Big amount following

black ink spilt (4)

11 Vegetables require

average cuts (8)

13 Dwelling in Leipzig,

look (5)

15 Duke is no ringer,

we hear (5)

18 County fortunate not starting to become a state (8)

19 Refine hair oil?

Not essential at the outset (4)

20 Habit shopkeepers are

keen to encourage (6)

21 In France, here is the

most cold (6)

22 Dry, clinical shape like

a roller (11)

Down

2 Book of goods with new cagoule included, thanks (9)

3 A bed in Paris in the

dark (5)

4 Punier, shambolic and

immature (6)

5 Partially ban karate in

Turkey’s capital (6)

6 American city or country with nothing (7)

7 Orally handle trees (4)

12 Old college in sea

round Pacific islands (9)

14 Show greater endurance than troublesome tout, say (7)

16 Seafood is back on

resting place (6)

17 Great number raid

my cooking (6)

18 Succeed in stopping

punt (4)

19 Country located in

Thai tideway (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Rechargeable electric

cell (11)

8 Older (of bread or

cake, eg) (6)

9 Malignant water sprite (6)

10 Eyesore (4)

11 Fine words butter no ___,

saying (8)

13 Arctic home (5)

15 Aristocrat (5)

18 US ‘Bluegrass State’ (8)

19 Sharpen (4)

20 Traditional activity (6)

21 Chilliest (6)

22 Drum-shaped? (11)

Down

2 Gazetteer (9)

3 Not illuminated (5)

4 Not harvestable (6)

5 Turkey’s second largest city

after Istanbul (6)

6 ___ Bloom, Lord of the Rings

actor (7)

7 Churchyard evergreens (4)

12 Samoa’s region (9)

14 Remain longer than (7)

16 Battered prawns (6)

17 Countless (6)

18 Recoil of a gun (4)

19 Port-au-Prince’s nation (5)