Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

8 Pass a few looking

good (8) 9 Disentangle from the Beeb after it loses capital (5) 10 Peak in Italy and in France and North America (4) 11 Good TV presenter — one might be seen on Most Haunted Live, perhaps (5) 12 Priti Patel, for example, is a part of history (4) 13 What cricketers play

on asphalt? (5) 14 Socially exclude one taken in by Socrates, oddly (9) 16 Smell nothing

grim (5) 17 It’s what happens when an artist goes to the wall! (5) 22 Entertainment venue for chivalrous group, we hear (9) 24 Follow small

lecture (5) 26 Where you might see a gymnast smile broadly (4) 27 Ball, perhaps, for

a policeman (5) 28 Heard to disclose

Welsh symbol (4) 29 Mother and soldier caught conjuring tricks (5) 30 German or Spaniard? A pure one, possibly (8)

DOWN

1 Biblical killer devouring appropriate army officer (7) 2 A jig with 500 gets

very complex (8) 3 Any one of six kings relinquishes English ravine (5) 4 Regret about

code (7) 5 Insert carbon into

flatter plant (9) 6 Still crackling with

electricity? (6) 7 Keep in check to produce more records, perhaps (7) 15 Gut feeling to put a bet on fellow with a stoop (9) 18 Worker to run off and marry a beast! (8) 19 Detective Inspector left Austen heroine a tough choice (7) 20 Glass mechanism in

a lock (7) 21 Harm, for example, a learner outside of the law (7) 23 Tribute period after queen receives ring (6) 25 Some really crazy

material (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

8 Dashingly attractive (8) 9 Undo (a knot) (5) 10 Sicilian volcano (4) 11 Phantom (5) 12 Conservative (4) 13 Position of a vendor’s stall (5) 14 Leave out in the cold (9) 16 Whiff (5) 17 Picture painted on a wall (5) 22 Disco (9) 24 Persistently pursue (5) 26 Ray of light (4) 27 Local constable? (5) 28 Vegetable of the onion family (4) 29 Sorcery (5) 30 From our continent (8)

DOWN

1 Skipper (7) 2 Went ahead (8) 3 Stuff (oneself) with food (5) 4 Sorrow caused by guilt (7) 5 Small yellow flower (9) 6 Motionless (6) 7 Subjugate (7) 15 The — of Notre-Dame, classic novel by Victor Hugo (9) 18 Animal such as a gazelle or gnu (8) 19 Awkward problem (7) 20 Acrobat (7) 21 Unlawful (7) 23 Respect paid to another (6) 25 Tight stretchy fabric (5)