Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Exercise is able to produce food (5)

4 Remove broken bidet (5)

7 Free of bride (3)

9 Irritate at the plant (6)

11 Equal with one couple (4) 12 Permit to hire (3)

13 Tree from Mediterranean island, say (7)

15 Grey ale drunk with enthusiasm (7)

18 Feline to get married (3) 19 It grows in the street (4) 20 Emphasis on pronunciation (6) 23 Doctor has old bovine sound (3)

24 Learn layout of the kidneys (5)

25 Ruin promising start in earth (5)

DOWN

1 Directors give whisk to repairman (5,6)

2 Partner’s painting (3)

3 See nothing in Manila (3) 5 Support British competition (5) 6 Music may defeat copper, say (6,5)

8 Refuse to study unknown (4) 10 Baby’s drink (3)

13 Scared to include transport (3)

14 Fold layers of wood (3)

16 A shade naive (5)

17 Behold a medium soil (4) 18 Lowest digit? (3)

21 Produce island broadcast (3) 22 Lawman takes firm pressure (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Type of nut (5) 4 Subtract (5) 7 Disburden (3) 9 Stinging weed (6) 11 Matching duo (4) 12 Allow (3)

13 Oak, eg (7) 15 Keenly (7)

18 Male cat (3) 19 Large shrub (4) 20 Dialect (6)

23 Cow’s cry (3) 24 Of the kidneys (5)

25 Mar (5)

DOWN

1 Bodywork fixer (5,6) 2 Craft (3)

3 Zero (3)

5 Prop (5)

6 Style of music (6,5) 8 Repudiate (4) 10 Add up (3) 13 Vehicle (3) 14 Work (3) 16 Colour (5) 17 Fertile soil (4) 18 Foot part (3) 21 Lettuce (3) 22 Policeman (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror