Two-speed coffeebreak QUICK CLUES

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Harass an animal (6)

4 Dismissal of Wellington? (4) 7 We’re breaking jug (4)

8 Canter off in a daze (6)

9 Heard end of story (4)

10 Trade in lead production (4) 12 Point stew out (4)

14 Gladstone’s son (3)

16 Knock style of music (3)

17 Posted unravelling nets (4) 20 Look noble (4)

23 God of both orders (4)

24 Volatile substance

used at once (6)

25 Spades, not new,

get auctioned (4)

26 Regrets stratagem,

we hear (4)

27 Festival involving a steer (6)

DOWN

Stick to prohibition outside (5) Sketch a tie (4)

Rushes to get oboe parts (5) Wager with a foreign character (4)

Verbally get round meeting (6) Pace rated incorrectly (5) College of note, possibly (4) Language in another sentence (4)

Disagree with work and sit (6) Reversible blade hub (5)

Wear down queen with poem (5)

19 Pears used as a weapon (5)

21 God of the roses (4)

22 Desire wife to join worker (4) Solutions in next week’s

Sunday Mirror

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ACROSS

DOWN

Nocturnal Conductor’s mammal (6) stick (5)

4 Footwear item (4) Stalemate (4)

7 Pitcher (4) Water plants (5) 8 Hypnotic state (6) Greek letter (4)

9 Fable (4) By word

10 Transaction (4) of mouth (6)

12 Direction (4) Step (5)

14 Boy (3) Public school (4) 16 Sharp blow (3) Gaelic (4)

17 Dispatched (4) Actively resist (6) 20 Aristocrat (4) Helicopter

23 Norse deity (4) part (5)

24 Petrol Wear away (5)

component (6) Javelin (5)

25 Retailed (4) Son of

26 Feels remorse (4) Aphrodite (4)

27 End of Lent (6) 22 Desire (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

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TWO-SPEED COFFEEBREAK

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