Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.

Cryptic clues ACROSS

3 Component that provides heat (7)

7 A pair broke unknown home (6) 8 Cultivating osier — no natural process (7) 9 Pleasant French resort (4) 11 Hire in Brentwood (4) 12 Husky, say, or another animal (5) 15 Terribly tired without right food choices (4) 16 Room to return and secure boat (4) 17 Pair trained student for 30 days (5) 18 Incline to be thin (4) 19 Transport in basic arsenal (4) 21 Found cold tea awful (7) 22 Change sides by mistake (6) 23 Improve dessert with directions (7)

DOWN

1 Register a fish (4) 2 Jetty contains single colonist (7) 3 Build Crete poorly (5) 4 Unwisely rely on instrument (4)

5 Set on simmer — that’s not the right word (8) 6 Sensitive offer (6) 10 Suggest getting close (8) 11 Tear out of Tripoli (3) 13 Criticised cook and journalist (7) 14 Child of resonance (3) 15 Gloomy about finding everyone in city (6) 18 Left port full (5) 19 Yield a plant ovule, say (4) 20 Friend working on ship (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

3 Chemical substance (7) 7 Bees’ residence (6) 8 Wearing away (7) 9 Agreeable (4) 11 Lease (4) 12 Equine mammal (5) 15 Regimen (4) 16 Heath (4) 17 Month (5) 18 Without fat (4) 19 Vehicles (4) 21 Positioned (7) 22 Flaw (6) 23 Add sugar (7)

DOWN

1 Singing voice (4) 2 Innovator (7) 3 Upright (5) 4 Stringed instrument (4) 5 Wrong name (8) 6 Sore (6) 10 Friendly (8) 11 Tear (3) 13 Cooked in the oven (7) 14 Boy (3) 15 Texan city (6) 18 Loaded (5) 19 Surrender (4) 20 Pal (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror