Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Cleaner takes wrong road to directors’ place (9)

8 Stressed about ringlet (5)

10 Extra pears are ordered (5) 12 Relaxed during conversation (3) 13 Rubbish in statistics (3)

14 Mope about elegy (4)

15 Church has genuine breakfast (6)

16 Walks like policemen (5)

18 Swayed to dance with journalist (6)

20 Tidy in one attempt (4)

22 Field of pleasure (3)

23 Quantity is changed to ten (3) 24 Small women’s group on ship is foreign (5)

25 Mention old tree (5)

26 Improved a dad, these ties (4,5)

DOWN

2 Round bees, terribly fat (5) 3 Entrusted with corrosion (4) 4 Relaxed in desert conditions (6) 5 Talk at zero speed (5)

6 Rest insist on latest news (4,5)

7 Irate lies mutate into facts (9) 9 Tries transactions with politician (7)

11 Vegetable is equal bargain (7) 15 Payment method for seafood (3)

17 Contracted and sealed off (6) 19 Chosen the Spanish tie design (5)

21 Live like a headless chauvinist (5)

23 Total, say, or just part (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Company meeting venue (9)

8 Lock of hair (5) 10 Surplus (5) 12 Perched (3) 13 Shabby articles (3)

14 Ode (4)

15 Food grain (6) 16 Walks heavily (5) 18 Staggered (6) 20 Smart (4)

22 Meadow (3) 23 Number (3) 24 European (5) 25 Utter a view (5) 26 Ties (4,5)

DOWN

2 Overweight (5) 3 Oxidation (4) 4 Paused (6)

5 Speak in public (5) 6 Late news (4,5) 7 Harsh facts (9) 9 Specimens (7) 11 Root vegetable (7) 15 Food fish (3)

17 Hired (6)

19 Exclusive (5)

21 Be (5)

23 A few (4)