Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Stick to personnel (5) 4 Officers’ money (5)

7 I’m a moving target (3) 9 Tense at the border (2,4) 11 Work at cash register (4) 12 Whole or just part, say (3) 13 Two chaps are foreign (7) 15 Blight that

I spotted, say (7)

18 One worked for a long time (3)

19 A new RAF is a long way off (4)

20 Posting without

first or last bit (6)

23 Charge to liberate,

with no right (3)

24 Lived to have

terribly lewd time (5)

25 Short online message

from bird (5)

DOWN

1 Unionist throws spade around (4,7)

2 Craze for loud commercial (3)

3 Fellow soldier to turn up for fruit (3)

5 A party has one defence (5) 6 Quiet time for Carol (6,5) 8 Chaps at university get food choice (4)

10 Feel modest about growth (3)

13 City of priority (3)

14 Regard for diocese (3) 16 Dodge woman with keys (5)

17 Free to wander sandbar (4)

18 Delighted with name (3)

21 Catch in one trap (3)

22 Reportedly owing to

condensation (3)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Workforce (5)

4 Metal alloy (5)

7 Goal (3)

9 Nervous (2,4)

11 Cultivate (4)

12 Total (3)

13 Muscovite? (7)

15 Ugly building (7)

18 Era (3)

19 At a distance (4)

20 Conclusion (6)

23 Payment (3)

24 Inhabited (5)

25 Chirp (5)

DOWN

1 Workers’ representative (4,7) 2 Trend (3)

3 Type of leaf on statues? (3)

5 Proof of location (5) 6 Christmas carol (6,5)

8 Bill of fare (4)

10 Type of tree (3) 13 Olympic venue (3)

14 Notice (3)

16 Avoid (5)

17 Coral ridge (4)

18 Biblical priest (3)

21 Mesh (3)

22 Morning moisture

on the lawn (3)