Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Incompetent drunk hid me fast (3-6)

8 Article with yours truly as subject (5)

10 Petal-shaped dish (5)

12 Snitched about fool (3)

13 Greek character has time for mine (3)

14 Map of esplanade (4)

15 Hate being tested, possibly (6) 16 Twenty points (5)

18 Horrid to rent out (6)

20 Shout for right paddle (4)

22 Bird in the nest (3)

23 Father left as a friend (3) 24 Go round street with cocktail (5) 25 Chosen the Spanish tie design (5)

26 He advises about sticky things (9)

DOWN

2 Moving near a venue (5) 3 Charge on time and distance (4)

4 School gets superior food (6) 5 Delight European with strange tale (5)

6 Rest insist on latest news (4,5) 7 European wren’s tree got twisted (9)

9 Cleric loses one of his buildings (7)

11 A tiller turned out to be exact (7)

15 Nod back at academic (3) 17 Recent change to middle (6) 19 Somehow hit road, or part of it (5)

21 Fruit that’s round, as it happens (5)

23 Fairy of superiority (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Clumsy (3-6) 8 Topic (5) 10 Crockery item (5) 12 Louse’s egg (3) 13 Large hole (3) 14 Scheme (4) 15 Loathe (6)

16 Make deep grooves in (5) 18 Decaying (6) 20 Bellow (4) 22 Domestic fowl (3)

23 Chum (3) 24 Woman’s garment (5) 25 Exclusive (5) 26 Glues (9)

DOWN

2 Amphitheatre (5) 3 Units of length (4)

4 Meal (6)

5 Make happy (5) 6 Late news (4,5) 7 Occidental (9) 9 Large church (7) 11 Verbatim (7) 15 Professor (3) 17 Core (6)

19 Fraction (5)

21 Small fruit (5) 23 Supernatural being (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s

Irish Daily Mirror