Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Abandon on

London street (6)

4 Cancellation includes room (4)

7 College of note, possibly (4)

8 Emphasis on pronunciation (6)

9 Lost the right, having sketched sunrise (4)

10 Made off with cheese (4)

12 Ticket price sounds reasonable (4)

14 Hearsay about organ (3)

16 Father left as a friend (3)

17 Yearn to be extensive (4)

20 Look for shelter on the right (4)

23 Care about maple (4)

24 Reach a river, somehow (6)

25 Midge has unfamiliar tang (4)

26 It grows in the street (4)

27 Festival involving a steer (6)

DOWN

1 Mark ruined satin (5) 2 Disgraced boxing competition (4)

3 Put off animal, with time (5) 4 Fish with a musical tail (4) 5 Terribly mean to the Spanish – that’s hard (6) 6 Somehow enrol recluse (5) 11 Head Dane off (4)

13 Sailor finds the

French skilful (4)

15 Suggest having beer with member (6) 16 Growth at factory (5)

18 Talk at zero speed (5) 19 Woman finds queen transparent (5)

21 Bird in another nest (4) 22 Flavouring that makes money (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Fibre (6)

4 Monk’s chamber (4)

7 Public school (4)

8 Dialect (6)

9 Daybreak (4)

10 Type of cheese (4)

12 Paying passenger (4)

14 Head part (3)

16 Chum (3)

17 Lengthy (4)

20 Ogle (4)

23 Maple tree genus (4)

24 Turn up (6)

25 Biting insect (4)

26 Large shrub (4)

27 End of Lent (6)

DOWN

1 Blemish (5) 2 Contest (4) 3 Dissuade (5) 4 Musical ending (4) 5 Tooth covering (6) 6 Solitary figure (5) 11 College official (4) 13 Competent (4) 15 Claim (6)

16 Bush (5)

18 Speak in public (5) 19 Precipitous (5) 21 Sea eagle (4)

22 Herb (4)