Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
1 Performer gets new sofa (5)
4 Bake off British dish (5)
7 Trimmed round edge (3)
9 Pay to get comfortable (6)
11 Loud performance, it’s true (4)
12 Rent in Tripoli (3)
13 Article about poetry reading (7)
15 Staff shows odd respect (7)
18 Irritate with listening device (3)
19 Woman from Fair Isle (4)
20 Cretan sort of stupor (6)
23 His appointment with gullible person (3)
24 Reportedly reckoned on caller (5)
25 Exercise is able to provide nourishment (5)
DOWN
1 Woman getting anxious is upsetting (11)
2 Partner’s painting (3)
3 See nothing in senility (3)
5 Note kiln contains crow (5)
6 A shade naive, after courage (6,5)
8 Just a lake (4)
10 Time to work at summit (3)
13 Rubbish in grotto (3)
14 Copper gets point of signal (3)
16 Former spouse to lie about expulsion (5)
17 Damn vermin (4)
18 Block undergraduate news, initially (3)
21 Knock a style of music (3)
22 Copy of paper (3) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror