Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Warning the rat off (6) 4 Affected row of tents (4) 7 Picture one prisoner (4) 8 Harass forest dweller (6) 9 Stupid European coin (4) 10 Made out dairy product (4) 12 Immense women’s group in Germany (4) 14 Creature of the masses (3) 16 Exclude from pub (3) 17 Rule out bait (4) 20 Still in the venture (4) 23 Right award for a dress (4) 24 Signed off pattern (6) 25 Feeble sort of meal (4) 26 Owing to student conflict (4) 27 Flexible game (6)

DOWN

1 Forbidden to throw a boot (5) 2 Reportedly regretted being discourteous (4) 3 Tried working, exhausted (5) 4 Fish with a musical tail (4) 5 Brute has article to mail off (6) 6 Reporters insist (5) 11 It’s expensive, darling (4) 13 Lied about being lazy (4) 15 Register for a large drink (6) 16 Disinterested, alternatively, in bed (5) 18 Beneath foreign articles (5) 19 Heard note from singer (5) 21 Revealing about beef (4) 22 Climbing around branch (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Menace (6) 4 Temporary home (4) 7 Religious image (4) 8 Nocturnal mammal (6) 9 US coin (4) 10 Type of cheese (4) 12 Broad (4) 14 Donkey (3) 16 Ingot (3) 17 Entice (4) 20 Level (4) 23 Gown (4) 24 Invent (6) 25 Crippled (4) 26 Contest (4) 27 Tree product (6)

DOWN

1 Prohibited (5) 2 Impolite (4) 3 Weary (5) 4 Musical ending (4) 5 Beast (6) 6 Push lightly (5) 11 Precious (4) 13 Unoccupied (4) 15 Triple (6) 16 Fed up (5) 18 Below (5) 19 Singing voice (5) 21 Type of meat (4) 22 Arm or leg? (4)