Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Barriers no problem for plum (6)

4 Rush to get a missile (4)

7 Now Edward has to have been obliged (4)

8 Get gun out a bit (6)

9 Mislay sole arrangement (4) 10 Ruler in the mirror (4)

12 Keys disappear (4)

14 Feel modest about growth (3) 16 Are back for a long time (3) 17 Pale sort of ring (4)

20 Stop sending letters (4)

23 Woman to dine out (4)

24 Honour an usher around the planet (6)

25 Action that works both ways (4)

26 Throw sots out (4)

27 Chief rioted unexpectedly (6)

DOWN

1 Simpleton caught

inside hill (5)

2 Biblical figures

graduate with soldier (4)

3 Famous as

a piece of music? (5)

4 Lied about store (4)

5 Loved to bother socialist (6) 6 Some heat from

another machine (5)

11 Excellent game is played (4) 13 Pass out, seeing snakes (4) 15 Artist dips composition in currents (6)

16 It happened in the Seventies (5)

18 Point duet out as a solo piano study (5) 19 Real problem with small beam (5)

21 Does translate some poetry (4)

22 Part of community (4)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Blue-black fruit (6) 4 Small arrow (4)

7 Was indebted to (4) 8 Small lump (6)

9 Be defeated (4)

10 Islamic leader (4) 12 Diminish (4)

14 Type of tree (3)

16 Age (3)

17 Chime (4)

20 Mail (4)

23 Author,

Ms Blyton? (4)

24 Celestial body (6) 25 Document (4)

26 Chuck (4)

27 Head of a newspaper (6)

DOWN

1 Fool (5)

2 Wise Men (4)

3 Remarked (5)

4 Food shop (4)

5 Cherished (6)

6 Unit of heat (5)

11 Wonderful (4) 13 Serpents (4)

15 Fast currents (6)

16 Occurrence (5) 18 Short composition (5) 19 Type of printer (5) 21 Poems (4)

22 Item (4)