Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Illuminated concerning quantity (5)

4 Buccaneer gets the bird (5) 7 Are back for a long time (3) 9 Pinch for every youngster (6)

11 Rib cooked with

English cheese (4)

12 One politician is a scamp (3) 13 Cap for two women (7) 15 Labourer gets loud during garret conversion (7)

18 Dad confused about tot (3)

19 Fletcher’s groove (4)

20 Concludes fern

is damaged (6)

23 Lowest digit? (3)

24 Tetchy friend of Mole’s (5)

25 Two from French

union church (5)

DOWN

1 Coming down with equipment for undercarriage (7,4)

2 More polite with salesman (3) 3 Previously used in poetry (3)

5 Pair trained student for 30 days (5)

6 Stone lies around in Ireland (7,4) 8 Number from Marianne (4) 10 Energy savings scheme (3) 13 Greek character has time for mine (3) 14 Mound of distortions (3) 16 Meeting to cook tacos (5) 17 Change during meditation (4)

18 Is more than one? (3)

21 Agree with the head (3)

22 Charge three notes (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Liquid measure (5)

4 Male duck (5)

7 Age (3)

9 Baby (6)

11 French cheese (4) 12 Rascal (3) 13 Kneecap (7)

15 Hard worker (7) 18 Mention as an afterthought (3)

19 Engrave (4)

20 Deduces (6)

23 Foot part (3)

24 Bad-tempered (5)

25 Tennis score (5)

DOWN

1 Plane’s wheels (7,4) 2 Agent (3)

3 Before (3)

5 Month (5) 6 Nickname for Ireland (7,4)

8 Operatic song (4)

10 Vigour (3)

13 Large hole (3)

14 Hill (3)

16 Race meeting (5)

17 Revise (4)

18 Plural of is (3)

21 Signal assent (3)

22 Payment (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror