Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Boycott gloomy table (9) 8 Clean off spear (5) 10 Talked of part of wheel (5) 12 Dog returned to supreme being (3) 13 End of stipulation (3) 14 Regarded as part of the play, say (4) 15 Church has genuine breakfast (6)

16 Lots of steam initially scalded a woman (5) 18 Investigate about harbour (6) 20 Soldiers left cold by drying agent (4) 22 Wander out of terror (3) 23 Set broken leg (3)

24 Talk at zero speed (5) 25 Whisper to a team (5) 26 Tired and smashed (9)

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2 Toboggan has new thrust (5) 3 School for code-cracking (2-2) 4 Hear silent arrangement (6) 5 Pole’s strange inclination (5) 6 First-rate space for instruction (9) 7 Considered what a mirror did (9) 9 Prisoner kind to companion (7) 11 Corsairs traipse around (7)

15 Reduce copper on time (3) 17 Stop and apprehend (6) 19 Cheap sort of food (5) 21 Animated a veil badly (5) 23 Look at torn page (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Ostracise (9) 8 Jousting weapon (5) 10 Uttered (5) 12 Deity (3) 13 Gratuity (3) 14 Spotted (4) 15 Food grain (6) 16 Steam bath (5) 18 Account (6) 20 Bathroom powder (4) 22 Stray (3) 23 Solidify (3) 24 Speak in public (5) 25 Remark made for the audience’s benefit (5) 26 Exhausted (9)

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2 Sudden movement (5) 3 Type of college (2-2) 4 Heed (6) 5 Ramp (5) 6 Place of learning (9) 7 Mused (on) (9) 9 Monarch’s spouse (7) 11 Buccaneers (7) 15 Sever (3) 17 Take into custody (6) 19 Fruit (5) 21 Living (5) 23 Stare open-mouthed (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror