Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Long to have costume in

certain design (9)

8 Staring at a torn page (5)

10 Singular cash register is

quiet (5)

12 Content with quantity (3)

13 Cat to get married (3)

14 Afterwards from both

ends (4)

15 Drains seamstresses (6)

16 Passed out without small

implement (5)

18 Replicated policeman and

one journalist (6)

20 Dreaming about some

sheets (4)

22 Growling about argument (3)

23 Set of angels (3)

24 Colour has a brand (5)

25 One woman returns to

fool (5)

26 Questioned to get

instructions in deed (9)

DOWN

2 Furious corsair lost head (5)

3 Regarded as part of the play, say (4)

4 Relaxed in desert conditions (6)

5 Important sort of number (5)

6 Munch in same attic, as ordered (9)

7 School peer is an excellent friend (9)

9 Allowance for one’s PIN having changed (7)

11 Overlooked two deer, somehow (7)

15 Society nowadays is gloomy (3)

17 Chap gets wife an alloy (6)

19 Conceit of lions (5)

21 The Spanish tie medley is exclusive (5)

23 Provide soldier with victory, to a point (4)

ACROSS DOWN

1 Fabric pattern (9) 2 Angry (5)

8 Open-mouthed (5) 3 Spotted (4)

10 Yet (5) 4 Paused (6)

12 Number (3) 5 Fundamental (5) 13 Man’s name (3) 6 Chew (9)

14 At that time (4) 7 Fellow pupil (9)

15 Waste pipes (6) 9 Boarding

16 Garden house (7) implement (5) 11 Loomed (7)

18 Imitated (6) 15 Miserable (3)

20 Amount of paper (4) 17 Mixture of tin and

22 Tier (3) lead (6)

23 Solidify (3) 19 One of the seven

24 Tarnish (5) deadly sins (5)

25 Imbecile (5) 21 Chosen few (5) 26 Interrogated (9) 23 Donate (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror