Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 ‘Serpent and Swan’ by artist (5) 4 Church painting is map (5) 7 Cool diversion gets stale (3) 9 Incompetent sailor between French articles (6) 11 Flames are terribly rife (4) 12 Sort of milkman (3) 13 Left net out as a sign (7) 15 Always allow out a youngster (7) 18 Ready for collection (3) 19 Complain audibly at beverage (4) 20 Rile about getting cricket team panacea (6) 23 Neither out of ignorance (3) 24 Old Italian destroyed manor (5) 25 Mock seat layout, to a point (5)

DOWN

1 Food seen on boxer’s ear (11) 2 Steal, admitting zero blame (3) 3 Everything in gallery (3) 5 Animated a veil badly (5) 6 A number score there, perhaps (6-5) 8 Show mode off (4) 10 Demand when king (3) 13 Same level within department (3) 14 Rodent inside crate (3) 16 Give no mention about poison (5) 17 Need to rearrange garden (4) 18 School gets a ten for instrument (3) 21 A great deal of flotsam (3) 22 Fireman’s fury (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Snake (5) 4 Graph (5) 7 Elderly (3) 9 Incapable (6) 11 Conflagration (4) 12 Kind (3) 13 Omen (7) 15 Young hare (7) 18 Solidify (3) 19 Alcoholic drink (4) 20 Potion (6) 23 And not (3) 24 Former empire (5) 25 Ridicule (5)

DOWN

1 Vegetable (11) 2 Thieve (3) 3 Everyone (3) 5 Living (5) 6 Number (6-5) 8 Public protest (4) 10 Enquire (3) 13 Equal (3) 14 Traitor (3) 16 Toxin (5) 17 Paradise (4) 18 Jazz instrument? (3) 21 Auction item (3) 22 Anger (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror