Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Hesitation after sending lab blank book (5) 4 Chap gets hamster, say, with hesitation (5) 7 Heard boy is a star (3) 9 Suggest having beer with member (6) 11 Opposed to throwing a tin (4) 12 Follow pet (3)

13 Lot more about variation in pitch (7)

15 I natter about fertiliser (7) 18 Dumb ideas include offer (3) 19 Question student and cry (4) 20 Inactive city shelter (6)

23 Don’t stand for untruth (3) 24 Removal of quiet desire (5) 25 Pleased with charter (5)

DOWN

1 Instruction when a group playing’s trendy (7,4) 2 Roused about employment (3)

3 Gum will recede on gullible person (3)

5 Got an alternative routine (5)

6 Reason for being in France (6,5) 8 Not far from one argument (4) 10 Wooden record (3) 13 Drink of character, say (3) 14 Previously used in poetry (3) 16 Building pick-up truck (5) 17 Thanks to students being huge (4)

18 Last word from the cricket? (3)

21 Heard beer was trouble (3) 22 Supporter of sport? (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Record (5) 4 Saint at the Pearly Gates (5) 7 Celestial object (3) 9 Claim (6) 11 Against (4) 12 Canine mammal (3) 13 Musical embellishment (7) 15 Fertiliser (7)

18 Tender (3)

19 Wail (4)

20 Dormant (6)

23 Fib (3)

24 Expulsion (5)

25 Hire (5)

DOWN

1 Order to leave vessel (7,4) 2 Exploit (3) 3 Large cup (3) 5 Ballroom dance (5) 6 Life’s purpose (6,5) 8 Close (4) 10 Caber (3) 13 Beverage (3) 14 Before (3) 16 Turret (5) 17 Lofty (4) 18 Cheerio! (3) 21 Afflict (3)

22 Golf peg (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror