Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Fish made captain lose head (6)

4 Jog out of bistro, timidly (4)

7 Gold gives artist quality (4) 8 Demand wager about container (6)

9 Woman to dine out (4)

10 Cold dice thrown (4)

12 Former pupil round with eastern instrument (4) 14 Course includes possessive pronoun (3)

16 Sign from galleon (3)

17 One editor’s necessity (4) 20 Enjoy being equal (4)

23 Kitty accommodates

English writer (4)

24 Stationery items for

sovereigns (6)

25 Lied about store (4)

26 Mood affected destiny (4) 27 Most senior steed managed

to get left (6)

DOWN

1 Bake off British food (5) 2 Somehow pose as something valuable (4)

3 A riot out of proportion (5) 4 It grows in the street (4) 5 Mad Ron turned out to be aimless (6)

6 Organised tour around key house (5)

11 Yield a plant ovule, say (4) 13 Rely on financial institution (4)

15 City gets looted, sadly (6) 16 Pole running, daughter bounded (5) 18 European lake is creepy (5) 19 Tessa returned something valuable (5)

21 Time to order something (4) 22 Celebrate destiny, say (4)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Cured herring (6) 4 Horse’s gait (4) 7 Atmosphere (4) 8 Rigid woven bag (6)

9 Woman’s name (4) 10 Chilled (4) 12 Woodwind instrument (4) 14 Belonging to us (3)

16 Zodiac Lion (3)

17 Require (4)

20 Similar (4)

23 Bard (4)

24 Monarchs (6)

25 Food shop (4)

26 Fate (4)

27 First-born (6)

DOWN

1 Middle Eastern dish (5)

2 Currency unit (4) 3 Scale (5)

4 Large shrub (4) 5 Haphazard (6) 6 Royal dynasty (5) 11 Surrender (4) 13 Shore (4)

15 Spanish city (6) 16 Strode (5) 18 Supernatural (5) 19 Thing of value (5) 21 Unit (4) 22 Celebration (4)