Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Transport favourite rug (6)

4 Dreaming about

500 sheets (4)

7 Melanie has style (4)

8 Cricket team’s legs (6)

9 Profit from a gin cocktail (4) 10 Most employees have to stop (4) 12 Expensive-sounding animal (4)

14 Timely end for cathedral city (3)

16 Prunes have to manage (3) 17 Finished six deliveries (4) 20 Affair of the bag (4)

23 VIPs overturned black

market character (4)

24 Finish lustre off (6)

25 Throw sots out (4)

26 Afterwards from both ends (4)

27 Authority is old and saucy (6)

DOWN

1 Rebel ship in tactical pursuit (5)

2 Dance film (4)

3 Nervous part of speech (5) 4 Changed gear in anger (4) 5 Terribly mean to the Spanish — that’s hard (6) 6 My one lost cash (5) 11 It grows in the street (4) 13 God of the roses (4) 15 Encourage fashionable location, say (6)

16 Tries unsuccessfully to take exam again (5) 18 Conversed about poetry (5) 19 Met to compose song (5) 21 A victory on a river (4) 22 Attach a safety device (4)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Floor covering (6) 4 Amount of paper (4)

7 Dash, flair (4) 8 Number (6)

9 Win (4)

10 Stalk (4) 12 Ruminant mammal (4)

14 Fen city (3)

16 Sprint (3)

17 Above (4)

20 Container (4)

23 Dodgy dealer (4) 24 Outcome (6)

25 Chuck (4)

26 At that time (4) 27 Specialist (6)

DOWN

1 Board game (5) 2 Stagger (4) 3 Anxious (5)

4 Fury (4)

5 Tooth covering (6) 6 Currency (5) 11 Large shrub (4) 13 Greek deity (4) 15 Provoke (6)

16 Take a test again (5) 18 Stanza (5) 19 Religious song (5) 21 English river (4) 22 Circuit breaker (4)