Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Serious gap in astrology (5,4) 8 Roam around after a smell (5) 10 Auction takes note of weighing device (5) 12 It’s a new way to relax (3) 13 Content with quantity (3) 14 Cultivating sage for a long time (4) 15 Mad sort of lament (6) 16 Barely enough hypocrisy after school (5) 18 Artist takes jetty to be a weapon (6) 20 Shout in Grantham (4) 22 Sick of villages (3) 23 Father left as a friend (3) 24 Judges plane to have crashed (5) 25 Strange to send a line (5) 26 Hired lease by journalist (9)
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2 Get beaten, having nothing approximate (5) 3 Talk about headwear (4) 4 Rush as hen sat around (6) 5 Inclined to have meagre time (5) 6 Soldier on grid gets some text (9) 7 Giant fled, somehow shrinking (9) 9 Young lady to lie about cannon ball (7) 11 Basic line taken in London (7) 15 Ruin in Denmark (3) 17 Heard vendor in vault (6) 19 Steal fastener at church (5) 21 Animated a veil badly (5) 23 Walk with tangled cape (4)