Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Socialist vehicle – favourite star treatment (3,6)

8 Nowadays have time for proverb (5)

10 Middleman not finished when penniless (5)

12 Use a needle like this, say (3)

13 Keys to resting place (3)

14 Dance film (4)

15 Sundry Olympic sportsmen (6)

16 A portal of stone (5)

18 Hear silent arrangement (6)

20 Tidy in one attempt (4)

22 Hitting with can (3)

23 Whole or just part, say (3)

24 It happened in the Seventies (5)

25 Pleased with charter (5)

26 Lee gladly moved, by all accounts (9)

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2 Remove a seer forcibly (5)

3 Cut in personnel (4)

4 Animal talk (6)

5 Wear down queen with poem (5)

6 Irishman turned and kept watch (9)

7 Black dog is a member of high society (3-6)

9 Dessert ingredient produces a tingle (7)

11 Money earned concerning location (7)

15 He’s good at karate (3)

17 Mild information let out (6)

19 Hard stuff that’s a bargain, say (5)

21 Communication from a mile away (1-4)

23 Hardly fast food, we hear (4)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Film premiere essential? (3,6)

8 Maxim (5)

10 Smashed (5)

12 Darn (3)

13 Cot (3)

14 Stagger (4)

15 Frogmen (6)

16 Banded mineral (5)

18 Heed (6)

20 Smart (4)

22 Metal (3)

23 Total (3)

24 Occurrence (5)

25 Hire (5)

26 Reportedly (9)

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2 Rub out (5)

3 Ship’s company (4) 4 Small mammal (6) 5 Wear away (5) 6 Walked on sentry duty (9) 7 Frequent traveller (3-6) 9 Setting agent (7) 11 Income (7)

15 Man’s name (3) 17 Soothing (6)

19 Alloy (5)

21 Electronic message (1-4) 23 Blackthorn fruit (4)