Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Lost her new case (7) 7 Made tea for children, say (6) 8 Call to allow lock (7) 9 Reportedly consumed by college (4) 11 Need to rearrange garden (4) 12 Pinched a shawl (5) 15 Navy bird? (4) 16 Look in Tuscany (4) 17 Supporter of art? (5) 18 Top of the address (4) 19 For every one inside wharf (4) 21 Hailed deer and get upset (7) 22 Can see improvement at meeting (6) 23 Month to set out groups (7)

DOWN

1 Sailor finds the French skilful (4) 2 Draws back engineers and yields (7) 3 Bird from the Rhone, perhaps (5) 4 Brooding about god (4) 5 Travel to view spectacle first (8) 6 Awful to rent out (6) 10 Flat principle about soldiers (8) 11 Time of underachievement (3) 13 Instrument from old vehicle Ian crashed (7) 14 Gladstone’s son (3) 15 Considers methods in report (6) 18 Conceals pelts (5) 19 Pets turn out to be vermin (4) 20 Liberate at no cost (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 3 Gun holder (7) 7 Made beer (6) 8 Curl of hair (7) 9 Public school (4) 11 Paradise (4) 12 Took unlawfully (5) 15 St Paul’s Cathedral architect (4) 16 Peruse (4) 17 Artist’s stand (5) 18 Chief (4) 19 Jetty (4) 21 Saluted (7) 22 Spiritualists’ gathering (6) 23 Seven-piece ensembles (7)

DOWN

1 Competent (4) 2 Ebbs (7) 3 Egret? (5) 4 Norse deity (4) 5 Be a tourist (8) 6 Terrible (6) 10 Apartment (8) 11 Age (3) 13 Wind instrument (7) 14 Boy (3) 15 Measures (6) 18 Secretes (5) 19 Nuisance (4) 20 At liberty (4)