Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Set tea out in the grounds (6) 4 Unusual ingredient in his pudding (4) 7 Nothing about a form of digital protection (4) 8 Modern centre destroyed (6) 9 Unexciting meat recipe (4) 10 Need to transform garden (4) 12 Race round some land (4) 14 Feel modest about growth (3) 16 Teacher back in prison (3) 17 Loop around puddle (4) 20 We’re off to get a jug (4) 23 Tear off at speed (4) 24 Pattern gets signed off (6) 25 Lies about Man? (4) 26 Study time of damage (4) 27 Get to the bottom of the noise (6)

DOWN

1 Sign loner up (5) 2 Friar’s food? (4) 3 Come in from barren terrain (5) 4 Ties up location (4) 5 Surface temperature on Mars, say (6) 6 Imagine being armed, perhaps (5) 11 Show mode off (4) 13 Manage firm exercise (4) 15 Fool can pursue credit note (6) 16 Bit of a quiet socialist (5) 18 Arrange to command (5) 19 Needs formation to be stupid (5) 21 Point stew out (4) 22 Climbing round branch (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Landed property (6) 4 Potato (4) 7 Metal fastener (4) 8 Fresh (6) 9 Domesticated (4) 10 Paradise (4) 12 Unit of land (4) 14 Tree (3) 16 Term of respect (3) 17 Pond (4) 20 Pitcher (4) 23 Scale (4) 24 Plan out artistically (6) 25 Island (4) 26 Hollow (4) 27 Low sound (6)

DOWN

1 Enlist (5) 2 Fold (4) 3 Go in (5) 4 Venue (4) 5 Celestial object (6) 6 Reverie (5) 11 Public protest (4) 13 Deal successfully (4) 15 Moron (6) 16 Tatter (5) 18 Group of monks (5) 19 Thick (5) 21 Compass direction (4) 22 Body part (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror