TAKE A BREAK TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Stop cook hiding start of recipe (5)
4 Misplaced replica held between pages – by this? (5-4)
9 Oil carb until fixed (9) 10 Chap, one with a fixation (5)
11 Tries out religious ceremonies (5)
12 Wait to suspend a boxing match (4,5)
13 False report of detached inhabitant headed off (7)
15 Accountant has German car on top of hill (7)
17 Revolutionary, opposing Ronald, gets stripe (7)
19 Drive mad grandee about (7)
21 Not a quality required in the communications industry? (9)
23 Dished out about a pound for material (5) 24 The Spanish love exercise and run away (5)
25 Wine producer's source of information (9)
26 Horse circling electronic cage got harder to mount (9)
27 Vessels taking numbers of sheep round river (5)
DOWN
1 Country rebel, a Russian mainly (7)
2 Judge if a set price is about the right amount (9)
3 Gives out new times (5)
4 Cooking vessel for one who steals game? (7)
5 Flower – one found inside peanut, surprisingly (7)
6 Thief crashing into jockey holding a limb back (3-6)
7 Jargon used in appalling office (5)
8 Bandage for each final held (7)
14 Costing the earth? On the contrary (4,5)
16 Experimental camping shelter took in about four (9)
17 Political alliances let back into vehicles (7)
18 Figure twelve surrounds horse (7)
19 Reactionary had dire trouble (7)
20 Object to the French steamer, non-stop (7)
22 Model tights – but not these! (5)
23 Penny, English girl, to irritate (5)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Decelerate (5)
4 Bent-wire fastener (5-4)
9 Oil or grease used to reduce friction (9)
10 Compulsion (5)
11 Ceremonial acts (5)
12 Loiter (4,5)
13 Calumny (7)
15 Accounts checker (7)
17 NCO's stripe (7)
19 Cause insanity in (7)
21 Diffidence (9)
23 Checked pattern material (5)
24 Abscond to marry (5)
25 Support for fruit growing in bunches (9)
26 Acquired more of a gradient (9)
27 Large jugs (5)
DOWN
1 Country east of Poland (7)
2 Act as referee (9)
3 Discharges (5)
4 Gamekeeper's foe (7)
5 Plant with funnel-shaped flowers (7)
6 Smash-and-grab driver (3-6)
7 Language, informally (5)
8 Sticky bandage (7)
14 Costing next to nothing (4,5)
16 Cautious (9) 17 Price-fixers' rings (7)
18 Multi-sided shape (7)
19 1988 Bruce Willis action thriller (3,4)
20 Constant (7)
22 Plural of that (5) 23 Annoy (5)