Two- speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Last decider ( 5)

4 Nervous part of speech ( 5) 7 Talk of argon, say ( 3)

9 Brie cooked with the old steak ( 3- 3)

11 Aide made strange impression ( 4)

12 Remote RAF manoeuvre ( 3) 13 Raiment ruined during building ( 7)

15 Non- specific officer ( 7)

18 Bird in frock ( 3)

19 In France, you double the skirt ( 4)

20 Trial or trade ( 6)

23 Negative to sound

like a horse ( 3)

24 Sovereign for

stationery item ( 5)

25 Happy to find this writer

right by railway ( 5)

DOWN

1 Extinguisher in sack with boxer ( 11)

2 Time of pageantry ( 3) 3 Secular place ( 3)

5 Bottom of drain layout ( 5) 6 A lilac style used in an adaptable way ( 11) 8 Drunken miser lost right to house ( 4)

10 Exclude from pub ( 3)

13 Ruin in Denmark ( 3) 14 Nothing found in Manila ( 3)

16 Place of labour? ( 5) 17 A victory on a river ( 4) 18 Feel remorse, the French way ( 3)

21 Drama about sheep ( 3) 22 Colour of

muddy earth ( 3)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Ultimate ( 5) 4 Anxious ( 5)

7 Type of element ( 3) 9 Cut of beef ( 3- 3) 11 Notion ( 4)

12 Distant ( 3)

13 Tower ( 7) 15 Widespread ( 7) 18 Fabled bird ( 3) 19 Ballet skirt ( 4) 20 Trauma ( 6) 23 Negative answer ( 3)

24 Monarch ( 5)

25 Cheerful ( 5)

DOWN

1 Emergency worker ( 11)

2 Era ( 3)

3 Put down ( 3) 5 Lowest point ( 5) 6 Flexibly ( 11) 8 Suburban home ( 4) 10 Ingot ( 3)

13 Spoil ( 3)

14 Zero ( 3)

16 Relating to birth ( 5) 17 English river ( 4) 18 Regret ( 3)

21 Male sheep ( 3) 22 Colouring ( 3)