TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Hidden bars unexpectedly flourished (10)

7 Florentine flower oddly seen at random (4)

8 Hypothetically misconstrued the irony (2,6)

9 Everyone captured

by awful song (6)

10 Hate first difficult

English exam (6)

11 Save, so may be

secure? (6)

13 City boy’s spoken (6)

15 Some GI’s awful

conceit (6)

18 Consents to keeping engineers in a long time (6)

20 Sopranos in university holding back as one (2,6)

21 Spoken rule for wet

weather (4)

22 Disturbed by the din,

Iris cut off (10)

Down

1 Onslaught causes pub

fury (7)

2 A great number backing large coral island (5)

3 Diminish former wild

den (7)

4 Completely full up

from unusual dates (5)

5 Being leaderless, turned down and thrown out (7)

6 Family insignia

displays weaponry (4)

12 Short bit of potato not

for Italian wine (7)

13 Resolute enough to

stop the bloodshed (7)

14 Poet has limb trapped

in building site (7)

16 Leaving without one

medal (4)

17 Confirm as aid for beleaguered Africans (5)

19 More remarkable, though less well done (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Waved (a weapon) (10)

7 Pisa’s river (4)

8 On paper (2,6)

9 Romantic poem set to music (6)

10 Abhor (6)

11 Liberate (6)

13 Largest city in Australia (6)

15 Concern solely for

oneself (6)

18 Accedes (6)

20 All at the same time (2,6)

21 Heavy drizzle (4)

22 Leave (heirs) with

nothing (10)

Down

1 Shower of projectiles (7)

2 Coral reef enclosing

a lagoon (5)

3 Become gradually less (7)

4 Glutted (5)

5 Dismissed (7)

6 A Farewell to ___, Hemingway

novel (4)

12 Famous Tuscan wine

region (7)

13 Faithful (7)

14 Composer of mournful poems (7)

16 Large cymbal (4)

17 ___ Mara, game park in

Kenya (5)

19 Harder to come by (5)