Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Old Italian-style manor (5) 4 Cultivated, as in large mollusc (5) 7 Appearing to have food (3) 9 Composer sounds more correct (6) 11 Flavouring that makes money (4) 12 Law-breaking implement (3) 13 Mother’s argument for getting dog (7) 15 Complex pen seemed to involve outlay (7) 18 Talk of argon, say (3) 19 Land in terrible rain (4) 20 Hang key at corner (6) 23 Are back for a long time (3) 24 Get beaten, with nothing approximate (5) 25 Mopes about at meeting (5)
DOWN
1 Ingredients for a salad (3,8) 2 Captain has fitting (3) 3 Originally called in one engineer (3) 5 A party has one excuse (5) 6 Vent one’s feelings like a kettle (3,3,5) 8 Part of the Far East (4) 10 Sick of villagers (3) 13 Creature of romance (3) 14 Woman from Esher (3) 16 Quiet set of keys (5) 17 Team dies away (4) 18 Suppress a joke (3) 21 Is more than one? (3) 22 Snapped about forty winks (3)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror