Two- speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.

Cryptic clues ACROSS

Enterprise to air by river ( 7) Embedded in botany? ( 6) Cat trio ruined dairy product ( 7)

Cricket match can be a trial ( 4)

I have to follow daughter to seedy club ( 4) Remove soap from broken siren ( 5)

Yearn for a tree ( 4) Cancellation includes room ( 4) Nowadays get soldiers to improve ( 5) Change railway after Virginia ( 4)

Husband led away and contained ( 4)

Record space in the white bit ( 7)

22 Stationery items for sovereigns ( 6)

Idly see recipe?

Not with these in use! ( 7) 3 7 8

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Brought up key colour ( 4) Procedure that’s unexceptional ( 7)

Conversed about poetry ( 5) Change during meditation ( 4)

Humid current around river ( 8)

Terribly mean to the Spanish — that’s hard ( 6) Leave nut recipe for final ( 8) Stupid woman got married ( 3)

I render translation more like a dweeb ( 7) Sylvester is briefly crafty ( 3) Show a drape off ( 6)

It’s in heaven, usually ( 5) Audibly perceived some cows ( 4)

20 Don’t answer,

just overtake ( 4)

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TERMS & CONDITIONS:

Quick clues ACROSS

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Undertaking ( 7) Fixed ( 6)

Italian cheese ( 7) Examine ( 4) Plunge ( 4) Wash out ( 5) Type of timber ( 4) Prison room ( 4) Correct ( 5) Fluctuate ( 4) Grasped ( 4)

Egg white ( 7) Monarchs ( 6) Facial features ( 7)

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Reared ( 4) Regular practice ( 7)

Stanza ( 5)

Revise ( 4)

Very hot ( 8)

Tooth covering ( 6) Ultimate ( 8)

Dull ( 3)

More socially inept ( 7)

Cunning ( 3) Procession ( 6) Planet ( 5)

Group of cattle ( 4) Elapse ( 4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror