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Two-speed coffeebrea­k

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Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Tax on tasty dump, perhaps (5,4) 8 Attempted when terribly tired (5) 10 Yet it’s quiet (5) 12 Very excited about whiskey (3) 13 Pam made new plan (3) 14 Keys disappear (4) 15 Pressure to spare new things like this (6) 16 Pinched a shawl (5) 18 Investigat­e about harbour (6) 20 Groped around for fastening (4) 22 Are back for a long time (3) 23 That woman’s in the right (3) 24 Admitted moving down with energy (5) 25 Nowadays have years for proverb (5) 26 Subdued reporters in grass (9)

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2 Somehow hit road, or part of it (5) 3 Fashion might start with poem (4) 4 Maids somehow left gloomy (6) 5 Nonsense food (5) 6 Alter formats of academic area (9) 7 Deters flu treatment, unsettled (9) 9 Blight that I spotted, say (7) 11 Record by socialist got thinner (7) 15 Kitty is a dish (3) 17 Rated wrongly by right businessma­n (6) 19 Writer goes to church for money (5) 21 Talk at zero speed (5) 23 Husband sat, training bowlers, say (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 House purchase tax (5,4) 8 Sampled (5) 10 Not moving (5) 12 Grain (3) 13 Chart (3) 14 Diminish (4) 15 Documents (6) 16 Took unlawfully (5) 18 Account (6) 20 Cord (4) 22 Age (3) 23 Pronoun (3) 24 Possessed (5) 25 Maxim (5) 26 Subjugated (9)

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2 Fraction (5) 3 Manner (4) 4 Sombre (6) 5 Type of offal (5) 6 Teachers’ lounge (9) 7 Confused (9) 9 Hideous building (7) 11 Narrowed (7) 15 Cooking vessel (3) 17 Dealer (6) 19 Small change (5) 21 Speak in public (5) 23 Headwear items (4)

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