Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Last decider (5)

4 Nervous part of speech (5)

7 Talk of argon, say (3)

9 Brie cooked with the old steak (3-3)

11 Aide made strange impression (4)

12 Remote RAF manoeuvre (3)

13 Raiment ruined during building (7)

15 Non-specific officer (7)

18 Bird in frock (3)

19 In France, you double the skirt (4)

20 Trial or trade (6)

23 Negative to sound

like a horse (3)

24 Sovereign for

stationery item (5)

25 Happy to find this writer

right by railway (5)

DOWN

1 Extinguisher in sack with boxer (11)

2 Time of pageantry (3)

3 Secular place (3)

5 Bottom of drain layout (5)

6 A lilac style used in an adaptable way (11)

8 Drunken miser lost right to house (4)

10 Exclude from pub (3)

13 Ruin in Denmark (3)

14 Nothing found in Manila (3)

16 Place of labour? (5)

17 A victory on a river (4)

18 Feel remorse, the French way (3)

21 Drama about sheep (3)

22 Colour of

muddy earth (3)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Ultimate (5)

4 Anxious (5)

7 Type of element (3)

9 Cut of beef (3-3)

11 Notion (4)

12 Distant (3)

13 Tower (7)

15 Widespread (7)

18 Fabled bird (3)

19 Ballet skirt (4)

20 Trauma (6)

23 Negative answer (3)

24 Monarch (5)

25 Cheerful (5)

DOWN

1 Emergency worker (11)

2 Era (3)

3 Put down (3)

5 Lowest point (5)

6 Flexibly (11)

8 Suburban home (4)

10 Ingot (3)

13 Spoil (3)

14 Zero (3)

16 Relating to birth (5)

17 English river (4)

18 Regret (3)

21 Male sheep (3)

22 Colouring (3)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror