Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Tuna roast prepared for

distant traveller (9)

8 Mates switching sides (5)

10 Fruit that’s round, as it

happens (5)

12 Elizabeth’s wager (3)

13 Party time for Dorothy (3)

14 Endure to the final (4)

15 Name for a watch chain (6)

16 Had points in the

underworld (5)

18 Abandon at the beach (6)

20 Dull meat recipe (4)

22 Wanting to include

creature (3)

23 Permit to hire (3)

24 Students have to copy neck

of jacket (5)

25 Roam around after a

scent (5)

26 Talked at location to

journalist (9)

DOWN

2 Attempts to use knife on Sunday (5)

3 The others relax (4)

4 Pasta or jam (6)

5 Join military group to the east (5)

6 Move this slyly, in a smart way (9)

7 Cultured chap may mangle net terribly (9)

9 Change the name of a gas (7)

11 Bolster rotten seafood (7)

15 Plus, Dad is confused (3)

17 Learnt to play the horn (6)

19 Quick to knock with identification (5)

21 Compensate by sending a note (5)

23 Miss the French ship (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Spaceman (9)

8 Groups (5)

10 Tapenade ingredient (5)

12 Gamble (3)

13 Speck (3)

14 Survive (4)

15 Queen Victoria’s consort (6)

16 Hell (5)

18 Maroon (6)

20 Domesticate (4)

22 Insect (3)

23 Allow (3)

24 Collar part (5)

25 Smell (5)

26 Spoke to (9)

DOWN

2 Transfixes (5)

3 Pause (4)

4 Type of pasta (6)

5 Merge (5)

6 In an elegant manner (9)

7 Refined fellow (9)

9 Hydrocarbon (7)

11 Crustacean (7)

15 Append (3)

17 Deer’s feature (6)

19 Fast (5)

21 Make amends (5)

23 Young woman (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

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