Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Red dice used in important game (7)

7 Darrel rearranged cupboard (6)

8 I regain form of land (7)

9 One’s oddest feature (4) 11 Terribly evil, as it happens (4) 12 Machine producing French and English articles (5)

15 Tear off at speed (4)

16 God of both orders (4)

17 Drama involving a rope (5) 18 Forward in expertise (4) 19 Fashion might start with poem (4)

21 Soldier’s old large umbrella (7) 22 Landlady’s character (6)

23 I’d see it performed in the gods (7)

DOWN

1 Scheme to get some land (4) 2 Rock and nickel in fireplace (7)

3 Needs new compact (5) 4 Creepy-sounding lake (4) 5 Tired tea about to get repeated (8)

6 The aim of literature? (6) 10 Gloomy about actors (8) 11 Clapped around course (3) 13 Warns the rats off (7)

14 Stolen from both others (3) 15 Played and rode off with politician (6)

18 European second to the ends of the world (5)

19 Doctor finds the

French spy (4)

20 Arrange by type (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

3 Last match (7) 7 Food store (6) 8 African country (7) 9 Pry (4)

11 Exist (4) 12 Carpentry device (5) 15 Scale (4) 16 Odin’s son (4) 17 Art form (5) 18 Saucy (4) 19 Manner (4) 21 Sunshade (7) 22 Epistle (6) 23 Supreme beings (7)

DOWN

1 Conspiracy (4) 2 Type of stone (7)

3 Thick (5)

4 Great

Lake (4) 5 Recapitulated (8) 6 Lecturer (6) 10 Cloudy (8)

11 Circuit (3) 13 Menaces (7) 14 Scorching (3) 15 Cavorted (6) 18 Posts (5) 19 Burrowing mammal (4) 20 Categorise (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror