Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
Improved as a gambler (6) Ask hoarsely for right snake (4) No westerner outside is obliged (4)
Take offence, say, at a wedding (6)
Copies of tapestry (4) Feeble sort of meal (4) Final use of salt (4)
Copper gets point of signal (3) Appearing to have food (3) Climbing around branch (4)
20 Period of confusion, say (4)
23 Notice about the ears (4)
24 Band unsettling priest (6)
25 Our Duncan’s tongue (4)
26 Attach a safety device (4)
27 Removed journalist
after ages (6) 1 4
7 8
9 10 12 14
16 17
DOWN
Anger about
British book (5)
Group causing riot? (4) Turns to snacks (5) Dreaming about many sheets (4)
Outlook changes space and time (6)
I step out onto slope (5) Tiny part of a cat (4) Everything unknown to friend (4)
Surrounding area of a bone (6) Evidence of alcohol (5) Children’s edition (5)
Beg for new pedal (5) Race around some land (4)
22 Lack a young woman (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror
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2 3 4
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6 11 13
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16 18 19 21
Quick clues ACROSS
1 Superior (6)
4 Coarse file (4)
7 Is indebted to (4)
8 Nuptial (6)
9 Primates (4)
10 Crippled (4)
12 Ultimate (4)
14 Snooker stick (3)
16 Vegetable (3)
17 Body part (4)
20 Quite a while! (4)
23 Of the ears (4)
24 Decorative line (6)
25 Asian language (4)
26 Circuit breaker (4)
27 Rubbed out (6)
DOWN
Holy text (5) Threesome (4) Tumbles (5) Amount of paper (4) Feature (6)
Ski run (5) Particle (4) Companion (4) Arm bone (6) Verification (5) Matter (5) Implore (5) Unit of area (4)
22 Fail to hit (4) 1 2 3 4
5 6 11 13 15 16 18 19 21
Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror
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Which one of our four definitions is correct?
BOTHY
1 2
3 4
Cottage or hut Unresolved decision
Ornamental budlike lobe Demanding, irritating
Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror