Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 3 Nut race around mythical creature (7) 7 Church has spoken of using voices (6) 8 Fundamental racial problem with daughter (7) 9 Intend to be miserly (4) 11 Five sat around mammoth (4) 12 Number enjoy something (5) 15 Pressure on worker to sound excited (4) 16 Stupid European coin (4) 17 Act it out in loft (5) 18 Complain at fish (4) 19 Fish with a musical tail (4) 21 Quiet student relaxed, happy (7) 22 Fend off with endless fear to overwhelm (6) 23 Betting this place has small provinces (7)

DOWN

1 Look in Tuscany (4) 2 Inactive fellow trod awkwardly around (7) 3 Carriage contains a quantity of gold (5) 4 Melanie has style (4) 5 Island train did crash (8) 6 Tell engineers strange tale (6) 10 Reckon site upset friend (8) 11 Barrel tax (3) 13 Mistake about one registered animal (7) 14 One politician goes rogue (3) 15 Woman is on father’s land (6) 18 About poems being in secret languages (5) 19 Yield plant ovule, say (4) 20 Flavouring that makes money (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 3 Half-man, halfhorse (7) 7 Written for a group of singers (6) 8 Extreme (7) 9 Signify (4) 11 Huge (4) 12 Integer (5) 15 Breathe heavily (4) 16 Ten cents (4) 17 Garret (5) 18 Food fish (4) 19 Musical ending (4) 21 Content (7) 22 Cause hearing loss (6) 23 Globes (7) DOWN 1 Peruse (4) 2 Asleep (7) 3 Unit of gem weight (5) 4 Dash, flair (4) 5 Caribbean island (8) 6 Narrate (6) 10 Roughly guess (8) 11 Keg (3) 13 Long-necked mammal (7) 14 Rascal (3) 15 Treeless plains (6) 18 Ciphers (5) 19 Surrender (4) 20 Herb (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror