Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Beer makes one resentful (6)

4 His camera captured fraud (4) 7 Wickedness in the village (4) 8 Canter off in a daze (6) 9 Follow the queue (4) 10 Expensive-sounding animal (4) 12 Entrusted with corrosion (4)

14 One worked for a long time (3)

16 Key in container (3) 17 Nude sort of hill (4) 20 Cease sending post (4) 23 Chieftain in the mirror (4) 24 TV programme is real stupid (6) 25 Daughter has diamonds to gamble (4) 26 Judge of French space (4) 27 Sensitive offer (6)

DOWN

1 Stick to prohibition outside (5)

2 Catch wrong part (4) 3 Rushes to get some instruments (5)

4 Ties up venue (4)

5 Clear out on time to have some wine (6) 6 Mole excited by new fruit (5) 11 College of note, possibly (4) 13 Loosen at a

French party (4) 15 Fashionable team gets locked up (6) 16 Bishop to loan mixture (5) 18 At university, group gets troubled (5) 19 Sovereign for stationery item (5) 21 Elegant cut (4) 22 Reportedly penalised for discovery (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Sour (6) 4 Dishonest scheme (4) 7 Heinous (4) 8 Hypnotic state (6) 9 Animal’s appendage (4) 10 Ruminant mammal (4) 12 Iron oxide (4) 14 Era (3) 16 Receptacle (3) 17 Drift of sand (4) 20 Desist (4) 23 Islamic leader (4) 24 Story in instalments (6) 25 Cube (4) 26 Consider (4) 27 Sore (6)

DOWN

1 Conductor’s wand (5) 2 Snare (4) 3 Water plants (5) 4 Location (4) 5 Red wine (6) 6 Cantaloupe, eg (5) 11 Public school (4) 13 Reverse (4) 15 Within (6) 16 Merge (5) 18 Distress (5) 19 Monarch (5)

21 Fit (4) 22 Locate (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror