Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Quiet lift gets commendation (6)

4 Cleaner sort of opera (4)

7 Not far from one argument (4)

8 Proper to go to church for Bible excerpt (6)

9 Right snake to speak hoarsely (4)

10 Give out the wrong time (4) 12 Flames are terribly rife (4) 14 Growl around predator (3) 16 Insect sounds like a character (3)

17 Dog left to have a look (4) 20 Nude running on hill (4)

23 Bemused with creatures (4) 24 Mother’s temperament? (6) 25 Incentive to have money (4) 26 Sounds like flow is curbed (4)

27 Walk like a small monster (6)

DOWN

1 Plead to exchange bicycle part (5)

2 Marched round vault (4)

3 Come in from barren terrain (5)

4 Possibly airs a garment (4) 5 Speaker finds gold by a hill (6)

6 Student of vision? (5)

11 Iron, perhaps, with no time for breakfast (4)

13 Picture one prisoner (4) 15 Cut terribly crude energy (6)

16 Shout about table (5)

18 The convenience of lads? (5)

19 Wife gets part of foot to turn (5)

21 Employed American journalist (4)

22 Total zero at sport (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Extol (6)

4 Bathroom substance (4)

7 Close (4)

8 Seemly (6)

9 Coarse file (4)

10 Radiate (4)

12 Conflagration (4) 14 Nocturnal creature (3)

16 Insect (3)

17 Leer (4)

20 Mass of sand (4) 23 Flightless birds (4) 24 Great outdoors (6) 25 US coin (4)

26 Fastened (4)

27 Wander (6)

DOWN

1 Foot lever (5)

2 Curved structure (4)

3 Apply (5)

4 Indian dress (4)

5 One giving an address (6)

6 Eye part (5)

11 Repast (4)

13 Religious image (4) 15 Lessen (6)

16 Cry (5)

18 Fellows (5)

19 Cog (5)

21 Second-hand (4) 22 Japanese wrestling (4)