Two-speed coffeebreak

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Improved as a gambler (6) 4 Feeble meat recipe (4) 7 Writer depicting void (4) 8 Stop and apprehend (6) 9 Room to return and secure boat (4) 10 Finished six deliveries (4) 12 Race around some land (4) 14 Swimmer feeling around (3) 16 Lion found in galleon (3) 17 Bit of compartment (4) 20 Old soldiers get sign (4) 23 Get a new entrance (4) 24 Hate being tested, possibly (6) 25 Language in another sentence (4) 26 Prudence gets discourteous (4) 27 Star ready for evening (6)

DOWN

1 Officers’ money (5) 2 Started with quiche (4) 3 Reversible hub? (5) 4 Item moving in the fourth dimension (4) 5 Loved to bother socialist (6) 6 Sign up loner, somehow (5) 11 Ever-changing swerve (4) 13 Manage firm exercise (4) 15 Toledo got sacked, sadly (6) 16 Large order for drink (5) 18 Danes out of range (5) 19 Met to compose song (5) 21 Only a lake (4) 22 Blessed with not as much (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Superior (6) 4 Domesticated (4) 7 Roman poet (4) 8 Take into custody (6) 9 Heath (4) 10 Above (4) 12 Unit of land (4) 14 Long fish (3) 16 Zodiac sign (3) 17 Section (4) 20 Portent (4) 23 Portal (4) 24 Loathe (6) 25 Gaelic (4) 26 Impolite (4) 27 Dusk (6)

DOWN

1 Alloy (5) 2 Flan (4) 3 Helicopter part (5) 4 Occasion (4) 5 Cherished (6) 6 Enlist (5) 11 Change direction (4) 13 Deal successfully (4) 15 Plundered (6) 16 Beer (5) 18 Mountain range (5) 19 Religious song (5) 21 Just (4) 22 Smaller amount (4)

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same