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Two-speed coffeebrea­k

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Beam, having no new material (5) 4 He provides flavouring (5) 7 Trimmed around the edge (3) 9 Multiply some cream (6) 11 Small caber is hard work (4) 12 Now employees have to be obliged (3) 13 Revere strange spectre (7) 15 Soldier has favourite wall (7) 18 Woman from Esher (3) 19 Bird on a string? (4) 20 Bragged of bird to journalist (6) 23 Concealed in both ideas (3) 24 Origins of botany? (5) 25 Bishop to read about Van Dyke, say (5)

DOWN

1 Flower at very exciting game (3-3,5) 2 Rob destroyed sphere (3) 3 See nothing in Manila (3) 5 Loves to change answer (5) 6 Staggering, having a lamp on top (5-6) 8 Just a lake (4) 10 Roused about employment (3) 13 Knock a style of music (3) 14 It’s a new way to relax (3) 16 A riot out of proportion (5) 17 Every ache treated (4) 18 Animal like this wife (3) 21 Tease one bishop after initial reassuranc­e (3) 22 Roderick has some poetry (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Synthetic fabric (5) 4 Herb (5) 7 Lip (3) 9 Twofold (6) 11 Toil (4) 12 Be indebted to (3) 13 Esteem (7) 15 Low railing (7) 18 Pronoun (3) 19 Flying toy (4) 20 Boasted (6) 23 Secreted (3) 24 Stems (5) 25 Facial hair (5)

DOWN

1 Bright flower (3-3,5) 2 Globe (3) 3 Zero (3) 5 Work out (5) 6 Dizzy (5-6) 8 Only (4) 10 Exploit (3) 13 Smart blow (3) 14 Take a pew! (3) 16 Scale (5) 17 Every (4) 18 Female pig (3) 21 Chest bone (3) 22 Poem (3)

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