Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
1 Consented not to start vice (5)
4 Heard collier was unimportant (5)
7 Objection to returning tub (3)
9 Less sensitive to quantity (6)
11 Swinging round part of house (4)
12 Rendition’s conclusion (3) 13 Consider what a mirror does (7)
15 British landsman renders whale fat (7)
18 Heir of resonance (3)
19 Former spouse takes morning evaluation (4)
20 Terribly mean to the Spanish — that’s hard (6)
23 Won over for the present (3) 24 Fear movement of adder (5) 25 Indifferent to pressure in new diet (5)
DOWN
1 Redhead gets money for biscuit (11)
2 Draw back from English bishops (3)
3 Expected condensation, say (3)
5 Racket is one problem (5)
6 Perpendicular gives correct view on the day (5-6)
8 It grows in street (4)
10 Mother and daughter are crazy (3)
13 Tease tribe, endlessly (3) 14 Confirmed about spruce (3) 16 America has time for employment (5)
17 Get level out of revenge (4) 18 Whole or just part, say (3) 21 Hardly returning ton (3)
22 Wonder in drawer (3) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror
Quick clues ACROSS
1 Avarice (5)
4 Child (5)
7 However (3)
9 Integer (6)
11 Bird’s appendage (4)
12 Finish (3)
13 Contemplate (7) 15 Cry without restraint (7)
18 Boy (3)
19 Test (4)
20 Tooth covering (6) 23 Immediately (3) 24 Phobia (5)
25 Lukewarm (5)
DOWN
1 Moist cake (11) 2 Recede (3)
3 Owing (3)
5 Din (5)
6 Containing a 90-degree bend (5-6)
8 Large shrub (4) 10 Insane (3)
13 Chest bone (3) 14 Conifer (3)
16 Application (5) 17 Still (4)
18 Total (3)
21 Negative (3) 22 Amazement (3)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror