Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Time to jump (6)

4 Not good at needing

money (4)

7 We’re off to get a jug (4)

8 Idea of negative charged

particle (6)

9 Ask hoarsely for a file (4) 10 Part of ammunition (4)

12 Affair of bag (4)

14 Not even peculiar (3)

16 Wonder inside drawer (3) 17 A great many lost out (4) 20 Regarded as part of the

play, say (4)

23 Left atmosphere in

burrow (4)

24 Pay to get comfortable (6) 25 New mode of building (4) 26 Secures site badly (4)

27 Sailor to achieve his

aim (6)

DOWN

1 Wines develop strength (5) 2 Tear off at speed (4)

3 Clever person dropped

one class (5)

4 Creature of superiority (4) 5 Speaker finds gold by a

hill (6)

6 Quick to knock with

identification (5)

11 Unfortunately sent

home (4)

13 Tablets get intelligent (4) 15 Strange desire to live (6) 16 Distribute a toll

differently (5)

18 Start playing notes (5)

19 Complain at broken

table (5)

21 God of the roses (4)

22 Party animal (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Season (6)

4 Hard up (4)

7 Pitcher (4)

8 Inkling (6)

9 Coarse hand tool (4) 10 Item (4)

12 Container (4)

14 Strange (3)

16 Amazement (3)

17 Auction items (4) 20 Spotted (4)

23 Den (4)

24 Colonise (6)

25 Curved structure (4) 26 Binds (4)

27 Goal (6)

DOWN

1 Tendon (5)

2 Scale (4)

3 Classification (5) 4 Supernatural

being (4)

5 Public

speaker (6)

6 Fast (5)

11 Bird’s home (4) 13 Competent (4) 15 Inhabit (6)

16 Apportion (5)

18 Beginning (5)

19 Sheep’s cry (5) 21 Greek deity (4) 22 Male deer (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror