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Two-speed coffeebrea­k

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Plate shaped like part of flower (5) 4 Bores about not being drunk (5) 7 Field of pleasure (3) 9 He shouts at guest (6) 11 Avid sort of performer (4) 12 Devour in one attempt (3) 13 Church plays a role in disease (7) 15 Chap, elderly, coped (7) 18 Whole or just part, say (3) 19 Nothing about a form of digital protection (4) 20 Look for Gran, lost around Germany (6) 23 Fewer around animal (3) 24 Produce financial return (5) 25 Students take woman to be equal (5)

DOWN

1 Kept economy in disarray with youths’ income (6,5) 2 Everything in gallery (3) 3 Shelter from sleet (3) 5 Reportedly barks for fabric (5) 6 Officer at the back (4,7) 8 Marched around building (4) 10 Permit to hire (3) 13 Firm German wheel (3) 14 Aged fool definitely has it (3) 16 A vine turned green (5) 17 Border of hedges (4) 18 School nowadays is gloomy (3) 21 Law-breaking implement (3) 22 Originally called in one engineer (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Piece of blossom (5) 4 Rational (5) 7 Meadow (3) 9 Visitor (6) 11 Prima donna (4) 12 Consume (3) 13 Contaminat­ed water illness (7) 15 Directed (7) 18 Total (3) 19 Metal fastener (4) 20 Male goose (6) 23 Female sheep (3) 24 Cede (5) 25 Flat (5)

DOWN

1 Child’s allowance (6,5) 2 Everyone (3) 3 Mr Mack? (3) 5 Billiard table cloth (5) 6 Naval officer (4,7) 8 Curved structure (4) 10 Allow (3) 13 Toothed wheel (3) 14 Advanced in years (3) 16 Inexperien­ced (5) 17 Margin (4) 18 Miserable (3) 21 Pointed tool (3) 22 Born (3)

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