Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Count as substance (6) 4 Contemporary with part-timer (4) 7 Made off with dairy product (4) 8 Seafood for short person (6) 9 Just a lake (4) 10 We’re off to get jug (4) 12 Life-changing tool (4) 14 Dog returned to exalted figure (3) 16 Same level within department (3) 17 Recalled about visit (4) 20 Repeat in the choir (4) 23 Fight to get beam (4) 24 Singer forced to give up work (6) 25 Tease endlessly over trouser bottom (4) 26 A novel once more (4) 27 Declare at cricket match (6)

DOWN

1 Artisan’s mother and child (5) 2 Period in Outer Mongolia (4) 3 Drive back to see film about parking (5) 4 Dull meat recipe (4) 5 Come out east and join (6) 6 Beg for new pedal (5) 11 Healthy source of water (4) 13 Chin-wagging a bit (4) 15 Musical lubricant (6) 16 Finished with macaroni? (5) 18 Vital supplier devised a rota (5) 19 Meant to develop into artist (5) 21 Cut in personnel (4) 22 Item moving in the fourth dimension (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Issue (6) 4 Office worker (4) 7 Type of cheese (4) 8 Crustacean (6) 9 Only (4) 10 Pitcher (4) 12 Dossier (4) 14 Deity (3) 16 Equal (3) 17 Shout (4) 20 Resound (4) 23 Practise boxing (4) 24 Hand in one’s notice (6) 25 Chair (4) 26 Again (4) 27 Affirm (6) DOWN 1 Stoneworker (5) 2 Expression (4) 3 Disgust (5) 4 Domesticate (4) 5 Appear (6) 6 Implore (5) 11 In good health (4) 13 Unit of length (4) 15 Thick oil (6) 16 Italian staple food (5) 18 Main artery (5) 19 Edouard –, French painter (5) 21 Ship’s company (4) 22 Occasion (4)