Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Noise is strange result (6) 4 Mix in prison (4)

7 Promise a victory to old

wife (4)

8 Somehow get man

decoration for fridge (6)

9 Soldiers find acceptable

range of food (4)

10 Need to transform

garden (4)

12 Window can be a nuisance,

say (4)

14 Definitely an article (3)

16 Knock a style of music (3) 17 Present during the

recording (4)

20 Request for quiet field (4) 23 Break a leg in storm (4)

24 Information I give a novice

is friendly (6)

25 Pleased with relaxation (4) 26 Ask hoarsely for tool (4) 27 Modern centre design (6)

DOWN

1 Old Italian destroyed

manor (5)

2 Wise man wasted ages (4)

3 Consumed by school, we

hear (5)

4 Total, say, or just part (4)

5 Time left, having unknown

score (6)

6 Excite ours somehow with

energy (5)

11 It’s expensive, darling (4)

13 Bachelor’s pain (4)

15 A couple of pages on the

French fruit (6)

16 OK bloke (5)

18 Keen to agree to change (5) 19 Leave Adriatic resort (5)

21 Pale sort of spring (4)

22 Item moving in the fourth

dimension (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s

Irish Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Steal livestock (6)

4 Move (4)

7 Pledge (4)

8 Attractive object (6) 9 Bill of fare (4)

10 Paradise (4)

12 Sheet of glass (4)

14 Common word (3) 16 Sharp blow (3)

17 In this place (4)

20 Entreaty (4)

23 Strong wind (4)

24 Friendly (6)

25 Simplicity (4)

26 Coarse file (4)

27 Fresh (6)

DOWN

1 Former

empire (5)

2 Herb (4)

3 Devoured (5)

4 Just a few (4) 5 Number (6)

6 Stimulate (5)

11 Precious (4)

13 Yearn (4)

15 Cider

ingredient (6) 16 Man’s name (5) 18 Avid (5)

19 Division (5)

21 Jump (4)

22 Occasion (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror