Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Master new flow (6) 4 Possibly airs dress (4) 7 Made off with dairy product (4) 8 Trial or trade (6) 9 German university students get the bird (4) 10 The shape of cricket in London? (4) 12 Spots cane construction (4) 14 Devour in one attempt (3) 16 Hoping to include fastener (3) 17 Flutes surround another instrument (4) 20 Cancellation includes room (4) 23 Arid sort of attack (4) 24 Bothering about jewellery (6) 25 Rite used flag (4) 26 Woman has time

for ingredient (4) 27 Say again about fuel (6)

DOWN

1 Pinched a shawl (5) 2 Dire sort of journey (4) 3 Mole excited by new fruit (5) 4 Long story about a gas (4) 5 Talisman gives a stubborn fellow trouble at first (6) 6 At home, allow a flue (5) 11 Invested with underwear (4) 13 Recalled about visit (4) 15 Encourage fashionable location, say (6) 16 City for cavorting pairs (5) 18 Cruel sort of complaint (5) 19 Lamp is not heavy (5) 21 Change during meditation (4) 22 Item moving in

the fourth dimension (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Small river (6) 4 Indian garment (4) 7 Type of cheese (4) 8 Trauma (6) 9 Sea bird (4) 10 Ellipse (4) 12 Skin complaint (4) 14 Consume (3) 16 Brooch (3) 17 Old ‘guitar’ (4) 20 Prison quarters (4) 23 Inroad (4) 24 Considerate (6) 25 Become weary (4) 26 Animal fat (4) 27 Iterate (6)

DOWN

1 Took unlawfully (5) 2 Travel (4) 3 Fruit (5) 4 Prose narrative (4) 5 Lucky charm (6) 6 Bay (5) 11 Singlet (4) 13 Shout (4) 15 Provoke (6) 16 European capital (5) 18 Painful affliction (5) 19 Frivolous (5) 21 Revise (4) 22 Occasion (4)