Two-speed coffeebreak Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

Film sprig (5)

Officers’ money (5) About to have nothing but eggs (3) Eraser used to trim edges of shrubbery (6) Willing bird (4)

Twins have to gain (3) Claimed to deconstruct mathematical point (7) Admiration for new sceptre (7) Hoping to include fastener (3)

19 Revealing about meat (4)

20 Intoxicated

by British gambling (6)

23 Hearsay about organ (3)

24 Old Italian

renovated manor (5)

25 Remove broken bidet (5) 1 4 7

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11 12 13

15 18

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Warden gets motorist a drink (11)

Rob’s new sphere (3) Lowest digit? (3)

Panic that wakes you up (5) Paying for boiled eggs? (8,3)

Bird in another nest (4)

Key in container (3)

Owing to condensation, say (3)

Kitty will act up (3)

Some insects are small and affectionate (5) Youngster with

European dice (4)

18 Favourite dog, say (3)

21 Gladstone’s son (3)

22 Raw material

from forest (3) 1

2 3 5 6

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10 13

14 16

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Quick clues ACROSS

Fire (5)

Alloy (5)

Caviar (3)

Tree product (6) Pastime (4) Be victorious (3) In base ten (7) Esteem (7)

Brooch (3) Escalope ingredient (4)

20 Inebriated (6)

23 Listening

part (3)

24 Former empire (5)

25 Subtract (5) 1 4 7 9

11 12 13 15 18 19

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Hand tool (11)

Globe (3)

End of a sock (3) Sudden terror (5) Spending cash (8,3)

Sea eagle (4) Receptacle (3) Expected (3)

Feline mammal (3) Group of locusts (5) Geometric shape (4)

Domestic animal (3)

21 Boy (3)

22 Mineral (3) 1 2 3 5 6

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Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror