Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Tim’s one order, to add water (7) 7 Excavate channel backwards, being pompous (6) 8 Pen new melody for deity (7) 9 Work into soup recipe (4) 11 Copies of tapestry (4) 12 A flat turned out to be deadly (5) 15 Be anxious about line found on neck (4) 16 Recording a pet playing (4) 17 Engineers manage to get programme repeated (5) 18 The others relax (4) 19 Friends shoot at school (4) 21 Makes boxes to contain energy (7) 22 Stands and delays (6) 23 Groups set step out (7)

DOWN

1 Most arguments are about celebrity (4) 2 Time to use poorer soldier (7) 3 Without a mathematical sign (5) 4 Does translate some poetry (4) 5 Aides tut about being found (8) 6 Irritate with a hypodermic (6) 10 Nut leapt about, sulking (8) 11 Is more than one? (3) 13 Sat, less worried about decorations (7) 14 Captain has fitting (3) 15 Scuffle about a scarf (6) 18 Corrodes truss badly (5) 19 Top bets are lost (4) 20 Stop sending letters (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

3 Dampen (7) 7 Swollen (6) 8 Planet (7) 9 Artistic work (4) 11 Primates (4) 12 Mortal (5) 15 Worry (4) 16 Ribbon (4) 17 Repeated programme (5) 18 Pause (4) 19 Sprigs (4) 21 Invents (7) 22 Market pitches (6) 23 Seven-piece ensembles (7) 1 Sun (4) 2 Soldier (7) 3 Subtract (5) 4 Poems (4) 5 Located (8) 6 Sewing tool (6) 10 Sullen (8) 11 Plural of is (3) 13 Knotted tufts (7) 14 Suitable (3) 15 Commotion (6) 18 Oxidises (5) 19 Supreme (4) 20 Pole (4)