Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Nice without large yokel (7) 7 Pursued for being pure, say (6) 8 Treated smile as random (7) 9 Agreement sounds full (4) 11 People’s event (4)

12 Loud, competent story (5) 15 Managed to find time for rage (4)

16 Deity takes nothing to be beneficial (4)

17 Act it out in the loft (5)

18 Tame recipe for beef, say (4) 19 Officers’ room in confusion (4) 21 Rascal gets organised deal skewered (7)

22 Gold entrance initially was sweet (6)

23 Many cut by a lake (7)

DOWN

1 Bachelor’s pain (4)

2 Artist, politician and worker go unchecked (7)

3 Quiet section overheard (5) 4 Change during meditation (4) 5 Saves primitives left inside (8) 6 Somehow detest being put on trial (6)

10 Start to vacate it, possibly (8) 11 Traitor within fraternity (3) 13 Crowed that beats do change (7)

14 A great deal of flotsam (3) 15 Surrounding area of a bone (6) 18 Honour for being badly lamed (5)

19 Excellent game is played (4) 20 Stretched when instructed, say (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

3 Farmhand (7) 7 Hunted (6) 8 Haphazard (7) 9 Alliance (4) 11 Contest (4) 12 Myth (5)

15 Tirade (4) 16 Saintly (4) 17 Garret (5)

18 Flesh (4)

19 Untidy state (4) 21 Put on a spike (7)

22 Cake (6)

23 Quite a few (7)

DOWN

1 Yearn (4) 2 Uncontrolled (7) 3 Tranquillity (5) 4 Revise (4) 5 Rescues (8) 6 Examined (6) 10 Switch on (8) 11 Rodent (3) 13 Bragged (7) 14 Auction item (3) 15 Half of the diameter (6) 18 Award (5) 19 Wonderful (4) 20 Tight (4)