Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

3 Answer solved in a lab in the country (7) 7 Second shelf has a toboggan (6) 8 Published trendy reproduction (2,5) 9 Embrace storage bay (4) 11 Except broken vase (4) 12 Lengthy, small pines (5) 15 Most unexcited about song (4) 16 Swimmer loses head in defeat (4) 17 Sluggish at interchange (5)

18 Cost upsetting Caledonian (4)

19 Wade about, open-mouthed (4)

21 Rate the new building (7) 22 Most senior steed managed to get left (6) 23 Principal line in London (7)

DOWN

1 Notice eastern agent (4) 2 Change the name of a gas (7) 3 Lively beer with soldier (5) 4 Left to finish loan (4) 5 Manner to compel military group (3,5) 6 Performer’s unusual traits (6) 10 Gloomy about actors (8) 11 Heard boy is a star (3) 13 Improvises some pasta (7) 14 Tug back on stomach (3) 15 Twitch and act oddly in bookie’s code (3-3) 18 Grow small source of water (5)

19 Part of the Far East (4)

20 Is suitable for seizures (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

3 Tirana’s state (7) 7 Sleigh (6) 8 Published (2,5) 9 Grasp (4) 11 Rescue (4) 12 Yearns (5) 15 Melody (4) 16 Decisive defeat (4) 17 Immobile (5) 18 Northern Briton (4) 19 Amazed (4) 21 Playhouse (7) 22 First-born (6) 23 Fundamental (7)

DOWN

1 Catch sight of (4) 2 Greenhouse gas (7) 3 Supple (5)

4 Give temporarily (4) 5 Body of squadrons (3,5) 6 Painter (6) 10 Cloudy (8) 11 Celestial object (3) 13 Chow mein ingredient (7) 14 Intestine (3) 15 Bookmakers’ semaphore (3-3)

18 Inflate (5)

19 Region (4)

20 Is appropriate (4)