Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Stop and apprehend (6)

4 Strike is a setback (4)

7 Dog really captured fiend (4)

8 A lot of money for a bundle (6)

9 Lies about some land (4)

10 Cultivating sage for a long time (4)

12 Flavouring makes daughter sick (4)

14 All right to have a tree (3)

16 Feel remorse, the French way (3)

17 Hot place in Coventry (4)

20 Punishment around Newcastle area (4)

23 Owing to student conflict (4)

24 End in unusual lustre (6)

25 Sent off for traps (4)

26 Damn vermin (4)

27 Happy to be told not to start (6)

DOWN

1 Enough to have beer with politician (5)

2 Eric prepared some food (4)

3 Whole time alto was performing (5)

4 Rib broken by English dairy product (4)

5 Instruction not to wear so much (6)

6 Ruin sunken ship (5)

11 Paste to fix luge (4)

13 Picture one prisoner (4)

15 Modern centre design (6)

16 Navigation aid that looks both ways? (5)

18 Conversed about poetry (5)

19 New cadet performed (5)

21 Organise sale of drinks (4)

22 Entrusted with oxidation (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Take into custody (6)

4 Gust (4)

7 Monster (4)

8 Parcel (6)

9 Man or Wight, eg (4)

10 Eras (4)

12 Herb (4)

14 Mature acorn? (3)

16 Regret (3)

17 Kiln (4)

20 Bamboo stem (4)

23 Contest (4)

24 Outcome (6)

25 Meshes (4)

26 Rodents (4)

27 Delighted (6)

DOWN

1 Sufficient (5)

2 Cereal crop (4)

3 Sum (5)

4 French cheese (4)

5 Period of teaching (6)

6 Destroy (5)

11 Adhesive (4)

13 Religious image (4)

15 Fresh (6)

16 Echolocation (5)

18 Stanza (5)

19 Behaved (5)

21 Beers (4)

22 Corrosion (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror