Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Bat makes din (6) 4 Elegant cut (4) 7 Amateur only has money (4) 8 Swear about getting new reply (6) 9 Help make a wager (4) 10 Not different from this America (4) 12 Finished six deliveries (4) 14 Feel remorse, the French way (3) 16 Player has positive response (3) 17 Maiden hugs assistant (4) 20 Touched cloth (4) 23 Husband gets bull with a deception (4) 24 Noble time (6) 25 Plant makes 1000 sick (4) 26 Terribly tired without right food regime (4) 27 Rodney ran that way (6)

DOWN

1 Get to part of waterway (5) 2 Throw cats out (4) 3 Reticent about trees (5) 4 The first sheep in vehicle (4) 5 Chap is terrible bore about river temperature (6) 6 New remit for headwear (5) 11 Raid carried out without water (4) 13 Revealing about beef (4) 15 Slander from French celebrity (6) 16 Father returned and concealed bug (5) 18 Object to layabout from the country (5) 19 Subsequently alter shape (5) 21 Ruining tie, getting cross in way out (4) 22 Kitty has a good time on the day (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Noise (6) 4 Fit (4) 7 Currency unit (4) 8 Response (6) 9 Help in crime (4) 10 Identical (4) 12 Above (4) 14 Regret (3) 16 Affirmative reply (3) 17 Attendant (4) 20 Woollen fabric (4) 23 Practical joke (4) 24 Month (6) 25 Factory (4) 26 Count calories (4) 27 Over there (6)

DOWN

1 Arrive at (5) 2 Group of actors (4) 3 Curt (5) 4 Public transport (4) 5 Man’s name (6) 6 Bishop’s headdress (5) 11 Dry (4) 13 Type of meat (4) 15 Insult (6) 16 Insect (5) 18 European state (5) 19 Subsequently (5) 21 Way out (4) 22 Reserve (4)