Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

3 Study its new unknown thickness (7)

7 Looked to unite nobleman and journalist (6)

8 But mine affected road surface (7)

9 Tour around in defeat (4)

11 Conveyance is key to craft (4)

12 Conversed about poetry (5) 15 Crazy about one domestic (4)

16 Equal with one couple (4) 17 Join woman, getting kiss (5) 18 Desire wife to join worker (4)

19 Inform when gins are mixed (4)

21 Taught to work in trade (7) 22 Non-imperial crime solved, with time (6)

23 About to laugh and smile in annoyance (7)

DOWN

1 Notice location (4)

2 Stop at chorus (7)

3 Notes objection to first appearance (5)

4 Change during meditation (4)

5 Impudence to criticise pot (8)

6 Rodney ran that way (6)

10 Commanding, not starting on the edge (8)

11 Tin from Tuscany (3)

13 Football team officials (7) 14 It’s a new way to relax (3) 15 Sealant gives mother small twitch (6)

18 Expand women’s group study (5)

19 Partially a house (4)

20 Eric prepared some food (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

3 Compactness (7)

7 Spied furtively (6) 8 Roofing material (7) 9 Disorderly retreat (4)

11 Wagon (4)

12 Stanza (5)

15 Servant (4)

16 Twosome (4)

17 Attach (5)

18 Wish (4)

19 Croon (4)

21 Instructed (7)

22 Decimal system (6) 23 Sadness (7)

DOWN

1 Blemish (4)

2 Desist (7)

3 Introduction, launch (5)

4 Revise (4)

5 Cooking vessel (8)

6 Over there (6) 10 Arranging (8) 11 Container (3) 13 Wardens (7) 14 Be seated (3) 15 Resin (6)

18 Broaden (5)

19 Half (4)

20 Cereal crop (4)