Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 List last form of seasoning (5,4) 8 Daughter scraps and moves slowly (5) 10 Isolated a section (5) 12 Initially an elite force (1,1,1) 13 Feline to get married (3) 14 Look noble (4) 15 Tell engineers new tale (6) 16 Connection doesn’t include German wife (5) 18 A doctor went ahead and sauntered (6) 20 Local man gets serene (4) 22 Field of pleasure (3) 23 Chap has school in the morning (3) 24 Boys have nothing, or a great deal (5) 25 Reversal makes uranium go off (1-4) 26 Pale bones somehow revealing thin folks (9)
DOWN 2 A foundation is corrupt (5) 3 Youngster in glasses (4) 4 Teased about sitting (6) 5 Animal all over mother (5) 6 Terribly bad palate, but versatile (9) 7 Online, watching animated emigrants (9) 9 Clothing and light got confused (7) 11 European act upset animal (7) 15 Liberate from fridge (3) 17 Moving so near ground (6) 19 Lost end of jacket in fire (5) 21 Regale a source of inspiration (5) 23 Total zero at sport (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 1 Condiment (5,4) 8 Hauls (5) 10 Separate (5) 12 Crack team (1,1,1) 13 Male cat (3) 14 Aristocrat (4) 15 Narrate (6) 16 Woman on her wedding day (5) 18 Strolled (6) 20 Peaceful (4) 22 Meadow (3) 23 Man’s name (3) 24 Consignments (5) 25 About face (1-4) 26 Skinny people (9)
DOWN 2 Demean (5) 3 Girl (4) 4 On a chair (6) 5 Beast of burden (5) 6 Versatile (9) 7 Transferring data (9) 9 Jumbled (7) 11 Pungent mammal (7) 15 Disburden (3) 17 Cause (6) 19 Conflagration (5) 21 Entertain (5) 23 Japanese wrestling (4)