Issues with croping in Lightroom 5

I was working in LR 5 and was sidetracked for a few hours. when I went back to working on some photos later, all of a sudden the crop tool had changed?? 
Now instead of one rectangle that I could adjust from either side, independently,  I have two parallel crosses on my photo that I can not adjust one side without the other moving???
And there is suddenly NO "DONE"  button at the bottom right of the photo to click on to conclude the cropping work.
How can this change in only a couple of hours time and why??? how can I get my old familiar unrestricted crop back??
thanks

Click on the Padlock in the Cropping Tool Panel to unlock it. [ A ]
Hit [ T ] to restore your Toolbar
My guess is that you started typing a word while having the crop tool open. A word with "at" or "ta" in it.

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