Two-speed coffeebreak

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

ACROSS

1 Everything contained in terrible song (6) 4 Spoken of morality (4) 7 Groped around for fastening (4) 8 Make box to contain energy (6) 9 Always in same version (4) 10 Queen seen in banner (4) 12 Feeble meat recipe (4) 14 Join a religious man (3) 16 Lashed around tree (3) 17 Usual guy (4) 20 We’re off to get a jug (4) 23 Nude sort of hill (4) 24 Brave to call attorney first (6) 25 Yield a plant ovule, say (4) 26 Took legal action against endless leather (4) 27 Shabby sort of dagger (6)

DOWN

1 Graduate gets prisoner some breakfast (5) 2 Shelter king from stew ingredient (4) 3 Imagine being armed, possibly (5) 4 Honest old writer (4) 5 Show leaver around (6) 6 Left university free to be sensational (5) 11 Not far from one argument (4) 13 Spots cane construction (4) 15 Afterwards to church, as a consequence (6) 16 Peaks constructed as den (5) 18 Arrange by command (5) 19 Seethed at bad grade (5) 21 Get hitched with European drip (4) 22 Swinging round

part of the house (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Slow number (6) 4 Verbal (4) 7 Cord (4) 8 Invent (6) 9 Constantly (4) 10 Princess Royal (4) 12 Domesticated (4) 14 Tot up (3) 16 Burnt matter (3) 17 Average (4) 20 Pitcher (4) 23 Drift of sand (4) 24 Bold (6) 25 Surrender (4) 26 Took to court (4) 27 Tattered (6)

DOWN

1 Cured pork (5) 2 Vegetable (4) 3 Reverie (5) 4 Unwrap (4) 5 Expose (6) 6 Graphic (5) 11 Close (4) 13 Skin complaint (4) 15 From there (6) 16 South American mountains (5) 18 Categorise (5) 19 Ranted (5) 21 Unwanted plant (4) 22 Bird’s

appendage (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror