Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Amazed to have stumbled (9) 8 Paper around large field (5) 10 Adjacent to a pine (5) 12 Has been returning saw (3) 13 Doctor puts pressure on cleaner (3) 14 Roasting outside oven (4) 15 Modern centre design (6) 16 Flower smaller than a cello (5) 18 Withstand drunken sister (6)

20 Started with quiche (4) 22 Father left as a friend (3) 23 Permit to hire (3) 24 Moving near a venue (5) 25 Decorate road, terribly new (5) 26 Calculator shows playground etiquette (5,4)

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2 What’s out, melts (5) 3 Meg’s broken valuable items (4) 4 Terribly mean to the Spanish - that’s hard (6) 5 Escape to form union (5) 6 Check evidence and scan (9) 7 Upsetting giant gait was wrong (9) 9 Vital work by a new foreigner (7) 11 Found cold tea awful (7) 15 Rubbish in grotto (3) 17 Lads in trouble in isolated spot (6) 19 Arrange letters for a while (5)

21 A charge to see tropical paradise (5) 23 Left atmosphere in burrow (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Reeled (9) 8 Kingdom (5) 10 Beside (5) 12 Has been (3) 13 Cleaning implement (3) 14 Hop kiln (4) 15 Fresh (6) 16 Stringed instrument (5) 18 Oppose (6) 20 Flan (4) 22 Chum (3) 23 Allow (3) 24 Amphitheatre (5) 25 Embellish (5) 26 Calculating device (5,4)

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2 Defrosts (5) 3 Jewels (4) 4 Tooth covering (6) 5 Run off to wed (5) 6 Check a manuscript (9) 7 Stirring up trouble (9) 9 From Riga? (7) 11 Positioned (7) 15 Decay (3) 17 Place surrounded by water (6) 19 Magic formula (5) 21 Coral reef (5) 23 Den (4)