Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Coil to jump (6) 4 Work into soup, possibly (4) 7 Mature pier design (4) 8 Imprisoned fashionable team (6) 9 We’re off to get a jug (4) 10 Inclination to be corrupt (4) 12 Look noble (4) 14 Draw back from English bishops (3) 16 Reportedly needs to be loose (3) 17 Meagre, yet inwardly dull (4) 20 Pale sort of request (4) 23 Say, hardly fast food! (4) 24 Harm barrier, with time (6) 25 Long story about a gas (4) 26 Rush to get an instrument (4) 27 Apple-coloured (6)

DOWN

1 Knock over small tablet (5) 2 Entrusted with oxidation (4) 3 German beer upset by bird (5) 4 Honest old writer (4) 5 Wept about queen getting alloy (6) 6 Clean undergrowth (5) 11 Another language in another sentence (4) 13 Border of hedges (4) 15 Exhibit old attitude (6) 16 Real worried about second beam (5) 18 Navigation aid that looks both ways (5) 19 Fast ships (5) 21 Metal guide (4) 22 A great deal of service (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Season (6) 4 Artistic output (4) 7 Ready to eat (4) 8 Within (6) 9 Pitcher (4) 10 Crooked (4) 12 Aristocrat (4) 14 Recede (3) 16 Slack (3) 17 Gloomy (4) 20 Entreaty (4) 23 Type of fruit (4) 24 Injure (6) 25 Prose narrative (4) 26 Water plant (4) 27 Reddish brown (6)

DOWN

1 Upset (5) 2 Corrosion (4) 3 Aquatic fowl (5) 4 Unwrap (4) 5 Tankard material (6) 6 Wash (5) 11 Gaelic (4) 13 Margin (4) 15 Reveal (6) 16 Focused light (5) 18 Echo-location (5) 19 Armada (5) 21 Element (4) 22 Large amount (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

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