Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
1 Look more magnificent without right (6) 4 Notice venue (4) 7 Sicilian feature ups the ante (4) 8 Fellow managed church in the country (6) 9 Part of rare anteater (4) 10 Follow Eastern ruler (4) 12 Register fish (4) 14 Snapped, about to sleep (3) 16 Peculiar spirit (3) 17 Pig has time to pack (4) 20 Not good at needing money (4) 23 In both emotions? Not us (4) 24 Last under failing energy (6) 25 Creature of pride? (4) 26 Entrusted with oxidation (4) 27 Candid guide (6)
DOWN
1 Chief almost made a mistake (5) 2 Tidy in one attempt (4) 3 Rushes to find some instruments (5) 4 Hitch small horse (4) 5 Somehow entrap guardian (6) 6 Walk with Tony, first artist then MP (5) 11 Capital of Czechoslovakia (4) 13 In total sobriety as well (4) 15 Drives miles away to get parking (6) 16 Reversible blade (5) 18 Time to tear into fashion (5) 19 Finished on time, that’s obvious (5) 21 Leave out of room itself (4) 22 Certain ruse would work (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror
Quick clues ACROSS DOWN
1 Male goose (6) 4 Location (4) 7 European volcano (4) 8 Paris’s nation (6) 9 Region (4) 10 Venetian supremo (4) 12 Singing voice (4) 14 Forty winks (3) 16 Alcoholic drink (3) 17 Store (4) 20 Impecunious (4) 23 Those people (4) 24 Suffer (6) 25 Feline mammal (4) 26 Corrosion (4) 27 Frank (6) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror 1 Social blunder (5) 2 Smart (4) 3 Water plants (5) 4 Problem (4) 5 Mother or father (6) 6 Vagrant (5) 11 Norwegian port (4) 13 Too (4) 15 Forces (into action) (6) 16 Helicopter hub (5) 18 Fad (5) 19 Observable (5) 21 Neglect (4) 22 Positive (4)