Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues
ACROSS
3 Student deserved to be erudite (7)
7 Virtually broke in and coughed (6)
8 Unfocused as smile broke out (7)
9 Managed to find time to shout (4)
11 Stop in time to have beer (4)
12 Loud, competent story (5)
15 Regret accepting new symbol (4)
16 Not far from one argument (4)
17 Carry out directions and behave (5)
18 Second taxi is for strikebreaker (4)
19 Base error about prophet (4)
21 Stomach terribly bad sign (7)
22 Rise of a perfume (6)
23 Tore off, having prepared award (7)
DOWN
1 Meagre sort of hint (4)
2 Old conveyance in a simple instrument (7)
3 Listed the French worker (5)
4 Revise during meditation (4)
5 Cereal in form of dependency (8)
6 Cloth rusted away (6)
10 One acted out account (8)
11 Pressure to get a French joke (3)
13 A red bed, sadly covered in hair (7)
14 Room for experiment? (3)
15 Engineers have couple to fix (6)
18 Feeling that may be common (5)
19 Ready to get a chair (4)
20 Loathe terrible heat (4)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror
Quick clues
ACROSS
3 Gained knowledge (7)
7 Chopped (6)
8 Haphazard (7)
9 Tirade (4)
11 Liquid measure (4)
12 Tale with a moral (5)
15 Ancient lettering (4)
16 Close (4)
17 Perform (5)
18 Wound’s crust (4)
19 Clairvoyant (4)
21 Belly (7)
22 Climb (6)
23 Prize (7)
DOWN
1 Slender (4)
2 Wind instrument (7)
3 Inclined (5)
4 Emend (text) (4)
5 Dependence (8)
6 Rag (6)
10 Telling of an event (8)
11 Play on words (3)
13 With facial hair (7)
14 Scientist’s workplace (3)
15 Mend (6)
18 Smell or touch, eg (5)
19 MP’s constituency (4)
20 Detest (4)