Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Transport favourite rug (6) 4 Left frayed cloth (4)

7 Liar forced to complain (4) 8 Sharp statue design (6)

9 Decorate with alcohol? (4) 10 Help make a wager (4)

12 Friend working on ship (4) 14 Rendition’s conclusion (3) 16 Wonder in drawer (3)

17 Ores sent out to tender (4) 20 Regarded as

part of the play, say (4)

23 Mix in prison (4)

24 Walk like small ogre (6)

25 Got up like a flower (4)

26 Fastens around necks (4) 27 Strange dearth of yarn (6)

DOWN

Constant inclination is a pain (5)

Tear off at speed (4)

Handle a nice surprise (5) Life-changing tool (4)

Happy to be told not to start (6)

Time to tear into fashion (5)

Flyer right to have a drink (4) Collapsed around part of church (4)

Wish to reside differently (6) Tessa returned something valuable (5)

18 Start playing notes (5)

19 Dish as ordered by boy (5)

21 God of zero supplicants (4) 22 Gap sounds complete (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

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QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Floor covering (6) 4 Touched (4)

7 Track (4)

8 Perceptive (6)

9 Shoe fastening (4) 10 Aid in crime (4)

12 Pal (4)

14 Finish (3)

16 Amazement (3)

17 Painful (4)

20 Spotted (4)

23 Move (4)

24 Saunter (6)

25 Romantic gift (4) 26 Binds (4)

27 Sewing

material (6)

DOWN

Muscle pain (5) Scale (4)

Deal with (5) Dossier (4) Delighted (6) Fad (5)

Ale (4)

Domed recess (4)

Lust (6)

Thing of value (5) Beginning (5) Dressed leaves (5)

21 Greek deity (4) 22 Opening (4) 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 13

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Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror