Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Fight a lot to get some garbage (9)

8 Creep off to get some food (5) 10 Talk at zero speed (5)

12 Partner’s painting (3)

13 Opt to change upper garment (3)

14 Groped around for fastening (4)

15 Not standing for harming a steed (6)

16 Small sailors are celebrities (5) 18 Contracted and sealed off (6) 20 Reportedly nailed sensitivity (4) 22 Field of pleasure (3)

23 Swan enclosure (3)

24 Slides for small children (5) 25 Mathematical crawler (5)

26 Scan gown to send somewhere else (9)

DOWN

2 Tawdry peach recipe (5)

3 Help beat sabotage (4)

4 Nose set off siren (6) 5 Nowadays suitable to alter (5) 6 Without groove, having no goals (9)

7 Steal a march, with chief to begin (4,5)

9 Impelled to depress assembly (7)

11 Criticised cook and journalist (7)

15 South African defence is gloomy (3)

17 Ridiculed drinks and keys (6) 19 Animated a veil badly (5) 21 Danes out of range (5)

23 Equal with one couple (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Pile of rubbish (9) 8 Pancake (5) 10 Speak in public (5)

12 Craft (3) 13 Summit (3) 14 Cord (4) 15 Sitting (6) 16 Suns (5)

18 Hired (6) 20 Diplomacy (4) 22 Meadow (3) 23 Writing implement (3) 24 Slips (5)

25 Viper (5) 26 Change post’s destination (9)

DOWN

2 Inexpensive (5)

3 Aid in crime (4) 4 Conk or snout! (6) 5 Modify (5)

6 Nil-nil (9)

7 Racing advantage (4,5) 9 Squeezed (7) 11 Baked in hot oil (7) 15 Miserable (3) 17 Mocked (6)

19 Living (5)

21 South American mountains (5) 23 Brace (4)