Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Enterprise to air by river (7) 7 Embedded in botany? (6) 8 Woman has resting-place for cheese (7) 9 Finished being tense (4) 11 Save broken receptacle (4) 12 Search for a weapon (5) 15 Reportedly nailed sensitivity (4) 16 Stylish Catholic rings student (4) 17 Total state (5) 18 Animal of compassion, say (4) 19 Lame sort of gender (4) 21 Former spouse sat, revealed (7) 22 Keep marine working (6) 23 Improvises Chinese food (7)

DOWN

1 Understanding German epitaph (4) 2 Firm agreement with Frenchman about cosmetics case (7) 3 Conversed about poetry (5) 4 Change during meditation (4) 5 Humid current around river (8) 6 Terribly mean to the Spanish — that’s hard (6) 10 A drug to get a heavenly body (8) 11 Barrel tax (3) 13 Overseer in favour of name change (7) 14 A great deal of flotsam (3) 15 Dish to revolve around additives (6) 18 Terrible place in the shade, possibly (5) 19 Only a lake (4) 20 Once ordered ice cream (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

3 Undertaking (7) 7 Fixed (6) 8 Italian dairy product (7) 9 Over (4) 11 Urn (4) 12 Firearm (5) 15 Diplomacy (4) 16 Chilly (4) 17 Voice (5) 18 Male deer (4) 19 Masculine (4) 21 Disclosed (7) 22 Stay (6) 23 Stir fry ingredient? (7)

DOWN

1 Grasp (4) 2 Dense (7) 3 Stanza (5) 4 Revise (4) 5 Very hot (8) 6 Tooth covering (6) 10 Celestial body (8) 11 Keg (3) 13 Supervisor (7) 14 Auction item (3) 15 Serving bowl (6) 18 Greek underworld (5) 19 Just (4) 20 Geometric figure (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror