Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Transport gold on a boat (7) 7 Wept about queen getting tin mixture (6) 8 Unaffected by a turn performed by a novice (7) 9 Lois managed to get the dirt (4)

11 Groped around for fastening (4)

12 Crowd without right Australian sandal (5)

15 I’m returning myself to silent performance (4)

16 It grows in the street (4) 17 Representative time with book (5)

18 Iron lieutenant’s material (4) 19 Flames are terribly rife (4) 21 Soldiers don’t finish medical course (7)

22 Sixpence for sun-worshipper (6) 23 Digit to learn about

with hesitation (7)

DOWN

1 Betting on a new bridge (4) 2 Same woe - somehow stunning (7)

3 Spirit of information, that is (5) 4 Spoken of morality (4) 5 Heat drug, treating relation (8) 6 Suggest having beer with member (6)

10 Start attacking feature of old house (4,4) 11 Brigade’s gear (3)

13 Ran sole organisation in city (7) 14 Catch in one trap (3) 15 Health worker has graduate torn apart (6)

18 Last decider (5)

19 Feat, organising dairy export (4)

20 Different from shape (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

3 Venetian vessel (7) 7 Alloy (6) 8 Innate (7) 9 Earth (4) 11 Cord (4) 12 Strap (5)

15 Act silently (4) 16 Large shrub (4)

17 Broker (5)

18 Woollen cloth (4) 19 Conflagration (4) 21 Diet (7)

22 Leather maker (6) 23 Integer (7)

DOWN

1 Duration (4) 2 Amazing (7) 3 Lamp inhabitant? (5) 4 Verbal (4) 5 Female relative (8) 6 Claim (6) 10 Start shooting (4,4)

11 Equipment (3) 13 French city (7) 14 Mesh (3)

15 Senior nurse (6) 18 Ultimate (5)

19 Greek cheese (4) 20 Document (4)