Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues
ACROSS
1 Light way to dress (6)
4 Criticises cooking vessels (4)
7 One editor’s requirement (4)
8 Improvise some pasta (6)
9 Rubbish on a list (4)
10 Chap has one chief (4)
12 Time of confusion, say (4)
14 Sort of milkman (3)
16 Opponent has iron ring put in (3)
17 Cricket match can be a trial (4)
20 Envisage holding document (4)
23 Look for shelter on the right (4)
24 Embedded in botany? (6)
25 Liar forced to complain (4)
26 Need to rearrange garden (4)
27 Man set out part of bloom (6)
DOWN
1 Arson solved by sound detection (5)
2 Composing trio is a lot of fun (4)
3 Yemen upset rival (5)
4 Fairy of superiority (4)
5 A professor is a handsome youngster (6)
6 Casual trousers, almost loose (5)
11 Demands fool accepts king (4)
13 Performs part of the bible (4)
15 Engineers always included esteem (6)
16 Fleas fly? Not true (5)
18 Peers at broken laser (5)
19 Left port full (5)
21 Land in terrible rain (4)
22 Time to order something (4)
Quick clues
ACROSS
1 Flashing light (6)
4 Pots (4)
7 Be in want of (4)
8 Type of pasta (6)
9 Schedule (4)
10 Principal (4)
12 Periods of time (4)
14 Kind (3)
16 Adversary (3)
17 Examine (4)
20 Travel permit (4)
23 Ogle (4)
24 Fixed (6)
25 Track (4)
26 Paradise (4)
27 Flower part (6)
DOWN
1 Navigation aid (5)
2 Public disturbance (4)
3 Antagonist (5)
4 Supernatural being (4)
5 Beautiful youth (6)
6 Careless (5)
11 Inquires (4)
13 Behaves (4)
15 Worship (6)
16 Disloyal (5)
18 Noblemen (5)
19 Weighed down (5)
21 Tehran’s country (4)
22 Unit (4)