TWO SPEED CROSSWORD

QUICK Across

4. Credit (7)

8. Excused (6)

9. Convent (7)

10. Horsemanship (6)

11. Hesitated (6)

12. Tree (8)

18. Shrub (8)

20. Angel (6)

21. Conforming (2,4)

22. Loser (4-3)

23. Fired (3,3)

24. Official’s residence (7)

Down

1. Balcony (7)

2. Sewing tools (7)

3. Harpsichord (6)

5. Artist (8)

6. Exhaust (3,3)

7. Interred (6)

13. Nocturnal atmosphere (5,3)

14. Firedog (7)

15. Profit share (4-3)

16. Maize ear (6)

17. Monkey (6)

19. Balls (6)

CRYPTIC Across

4. Attribute of a writer? (7)

8. Duty-free (6)

9. Where to find women in retreat (7)

10. I’d call round on horseback (6)

11. Employed father at first, but didn’t continue (6)

12. Part of a comedian’s material roasted by the critics? (8)

18. The sort of reading a botanist may be interested in (8)

20. Angelic turn of phrase (6)

21. Properly dressed soldiers are (2,4)

22. Joined in the race, but without success apparently (4-3)

23. Released - or shot (3,3)

24. Yearned anew for clerical office (7)

Down

1. Caterer may build a row of houses (7)

2. They are steelyeyed (7)

3. Group about to fix an old musical instrument (6)

5. Casting is one of his jobs in the studio (8)

6. Become exhausted and exit hurriedly (3,3)

7. Bearing some fruit, we hear, in the earth (6)

13. Nocturne? (5,3)

14. Bar and club (7)

15. A roue not waiting for his cut? (4-3)

16. Dinner, for example, that is eaten in S. Africa (6)

17. According to this animal the sailor is in favour (6)

19. The Danes hold a number, so do we all! (6)