Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Somehow get man

something attractive (6)

4 A study in port (4)

7 Eric prepared some food (4) 8 Reliable place for horses (6)

9 College of note, possibly (4) 10 Sensitive rose

arrangement (4)

12 Throw sots out (4)

14 Relaxed during

conversation (3)

16 Lashed around charred

remains (3)

17 Declare a victory to old

wife (4)

20 Part of the play? (4)

23 Move in prison (4)

24 Entertain fellow with

beer (6)

25 Officers’ room in

confusion (4)

26 Spat out bathroom

accessories (4)

27 Require directions to

follow (6)

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Artisan’s mother and child (5)

Seize outlandish garb (4) Stressed about lock (5)

Care about tree (4)

Hate being tested, maybe (6)

Band transported tonne (5) Place in Czechoslovakia (4) Old friend put on stone (4) Seafood for short person (6) Something valuable, as arranged (5)

Conversed about poetry (5) Arrange letters for a while (5)

Raw materials from forest (4)

Girl at a party (4)

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Quick clues

ACROSS

DOWN

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6

19

1 Fridge decoration (6) 1 Stoneworker (5)

4 Yemeni city (4) 2 Snatch (4)

7 Cereal crop (4) 3 Plait of hair (5)

8 Outbuilding (6) 4 Maple genus (4)

9 Public school (4) 5 Loathe (6)

10 Painful (4) 6 Nine-piece group (5)

12 Chuck (4) 11 European capital (4) 14 Took a chair (3) 13 Gem (4)

16 Silvery grey colour (3) 15 Edible

17 Confess (4) crustacean (6)

20 Character (4) 16 Thing of value (5) 23 Mix (4) 18 Stanza (5)

24 Amuse (6) 19 Magic formula (5) 25 Untidy state (4) 21 Minerals (4)

26 Faucets (4) 22 Formal

27 Necessitate (6) celebration (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror