Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Wonderful to tolerate

constellation (5,4)

8 Manual workers leave hotel

to move sand (5)

10 Conscious of a battle to the

east (5)

12 Regard for diocese (3)

13 Rush to get US code (3)

14 Three notes, small

payments (4)

15 Beliefs in the empty

traps (6)

16 Spare recipe for fruit (5)

18 Begin fantastically with

minor (6)

20 Honest old writer (4)

22 Free of bride (3)

23 Bemused with creature (3) 24 Woman’s clear order (5)

25 Show new spirit (5)

26 Real nests lost attention (9)

DOWN

2 Remove soap from broken

siren (5)

3 Collapsed around part of

church (4)

4 Fire right for garment (6)

5 Staring at a torn page (5)

6 Bird at church has a couple

of fellows chin-wagging (9) 7 Nine legs running around

school, weakening (9)

9 Praised, oddly, for

anguish (7)

11 Appealing not to lose

everything (7)

15 Rubbish in statistics (3)

17 Conclusion gives listener

cause to be loved (6)

19 Weak force on track (5)

21 Father has hesitation

getting small felines (5)

23 Need to rearrange

garden (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s

Irish Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Ursa Major (5,4)

8 Body parts (5)

10 Knowing about (5) 12 Notice (3)

13 Metal fastener (3)

14 Professional

rates (4)

15 Sets of beliefs (6)

16 Perry ingredients (5) 18 Child (6)

20 Unwrap (4)

22 Disburden (3)

23 Flightless bird (3)

24 Ms Balding, eg? (5) 25 Devil (5)

26 Vigilance (9)

DOWN

2 Wash out (5)

3 Church

recess (4)

4 Jacket (6)

5 Open-mouthed (5) 6 Small bird (9)

7 Decreasing (9)

9 Hopelessness (7) 11 Attractive (7)

15 Shabby

articles (3)

17 Make

beloved (6)

19 Fragile (5)

21 Cougars (5)

23 Paradise (4)