Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Great deal of gold inside

bog (6)

4 Odds on a new bridge (4)

7 Row about rite (4)

8 Hornet flying round

chair (6)

9 Throw cats out (4)

10 It’s a new drink (4)

12 The end of the beef (4)

14 Society nowadays is

gloomy (3)

16 Knock Pat over (3)

17 Bird at two parties (4)

20 Not good at needing

money (4)

23 Grooms have space (4)

24 Wish to reside differently (6) 25 Ties up venue (4)

26 Small group owing to

time (4)

27 Tess goes to lost city, comes

back all brown (6)

DOWN

1 Copper, say, encountered a

trainee (5)

2 Unusual not to be well

done (4)

3 Mates using old power (5) 4 Dry time for group (4)

5 Commendation for quiet

lift (6)

6 Famous, like a piece of

music? (5)

11 His pudding has an odd

ingredient (4)

13 Loosen a French

hairstyle (4)

15 Work to set counter (6)

16 Tried working when

exhausted (5)

18 Command alignment (5)

19 Handle a nice surprise (5) 21 Leave out of room itself (4) 22 Lack a young woman (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s

Irish Mirror

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Swamp (6)

4 Length (4)

7 Layer (4)

8 Royal seat (6)

9 Group of actors (4) 10 Sparkling wine (4) 12 Posterior (4)

14 Miserable (3)

16 Faucet (3)

17 Extinct creature (4) 20 Impecunious (4)

23 Chamber (4)

24 Lust (6)

25 Location (4)

26 Song for two (4)

27 Type of apple (6)

DOWN

1 Type of

element (5)

2 Seldom seen (4)

3 Vapour (5)

4 Religious offshoot

group (4)

5 Extol (6)

6 Observed (5)

11 Potato (4)

13 Reverse (4)

15 Resist (6)

16 Weary (5)

18 Arrange (5)

19 Deal with (5)

21 Neglect (4)

22 Fail to hit (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror

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