Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

Stones and key used to level floor (6)

One of vital cosmetics (4) Remove during jousting (4) To flood moat with salad ingredient (6)

Tiny part of a cat (4)

Unusual not to be well done (4) Sound surprised as gaps develop (4)

14 Besotted with drinker (3)

16 Prosecute a woman (3)

17 Following from main exterior (4) 20 Lone broadcast at Christmas (4) 23 Persist in being a silly person (4) 24 Last listener to invoke

affection (6)

25 Called for a step (4)

26 Throw aboard ship (4)

27 Lackey has bearings in

many styles (3,3)

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4 7 8

9 10 12

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4 5 6

11 13 15

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19 21 22

Minor deity threw trays (5) Cavort at Prom, possibly (4) 1960s group making entrances (5)

New arts supremo (4)

Declare at cricket match (6) Arrive on time to see celestial object (5)

Primate gets kiss at the top (4) Spots cane construction (4) Heard notes from operatic singers (6)

Sense location, say (5) Unbridled glee at unknown lament (5)

Rinse out warning device (5) The burden we bear (4)

Smile at supporter (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

Long boring speech (6) Bathroom powder (4)

Evict (4)

Ketchup flavour (6) Particle (4) Seldom seen (4) Catch one’s breath (4)

14 Drunkard (3)

16 Take to court (3) 17 Subsequent (4) 20 Yuletide (4)

23 Henchman (4) 24 Make beloved (6) 25 Ladder part (4) 26 Chuck (4)

27 Sycophant (3,3)

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7 8

9 10 12

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15 16 18

19 21 22

Woodland god (5) Gambol (4) Portals (5) Russian ruler (4) Affirm (6)

Tailed star? (5) Peak (4)

Skin complaint (4) Singing voices (6) Vision (5) Memorial poem (5) Temptress (5) Responsibility (4) Ray of light (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror