Two-speed coffeebreak

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

ACROSS

3 Allowance for boarding-house (7) 7 Adviser puts soldiers on hill (6) 8 Serbia confused with one part of Russia (7) 9 Got up, sore and confused (4) 11 Wonderful penalty (4) 12 Loud, competent story (5) 15 Stop daughter joining group (4)

16 Scan a red construction (4) 17 Total state (5)

18 Prison term in Turkey, say (4) 19 Mood affected destiny (4) 21 Not as small as a shredder, say (7)

22 Tree of note felled by chief (6) 23 Skated with child in protective gear (7)

DOWN

1 Small face is conceited (4) 2 Published trendy reproduction (2,5) 3 Oddly poses as group of lawmen (5) 4 Creepy-sounding lake (4) 5 Plot involved car noise (8) 6 Got closer to listener in wrong end (6)

10 End nomad wandering when needed (2,6) 11 Stout fellow at junction (3) 13 Island shorts (7) 14 Gladstone’s son (3) 15 Bugles’ unusual swellings (6)

18 Weary of directors, say (5) 19 Lied about store (4)

20 Some time in

Outer Mongolia (4)

ACROSS

3 Old age grant (7) 7 Personal guru (6) 8 Russian province (7) 9 Flower (4) 11 Sunny (4) 12 Myth (5) 15 Stripe (4) 16 Peruse (4) 17 Voice (5) 18 Winged creature (4)

19 Fate (4)

21 Larger (7)

22 Boss (6)

23 Crash helmet (7)

DOWN

1 Self-satisfied (4) 2 Published (2,5) 3 Sheriff’s men (5) 4 Great Lake (4) 5 Outline (8) 6 Approached (6) 10 When required (2,6) 11 Overweight (3) 13 British Overseas Territory (7)

14 Boy (3) 15 Protuberances (6) 18 Fed up (5) 19 Imported food shop (4)

20 Expression (4)