Quick clues

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Walk like small ogre (6)

4 Wager has a pulse (4)

7 Mean to change last word (4)

8 Outline is almost exact (6) 9 Unexciting meat recipe (4) 10 Made off with Dutch export (4)

12 Challenge to read out (4) 14 Consume in one attempt (3) 16 Lashed round tree (3)

17 Unusual not to be well done (4)

20 Still in the venture (4)

23 Nude sort of hill (4)

24 Wish to reside differently (6)

25 Limit to eastern headland (4)

26 Dance film (4)

27 Star ready in the evening (6)

DOWN

1 Wonderful policeman (5) 2 Regretted sounding impolite (4)

3 Earls running to the light (5)

4 Wager with a foreign character (4)

5 Terribly mean to the Spanish – that’s hard (6) 6 Handle a nice surprise (5) 11 It’s expensive, darling (4) 13 Care about some land (4) 15 From there to the new church (6)

16 Real worried about Dutch tree (5)

18 Danes out of range (5)

19 Question about English grain (5)

21 Revealing about meat (4) 22 Lack a young woman (4)

ACROSS

1 Amble (6)

4 Defeat (4)

7 So be it (4)

8 Summary (6)

9 Domesticated (4)

10 Type of cheese (4) 12 Be brave enough (4) 14 Devour (3)

16 Charred remains (3) 17 Seldom seen (4)

20 Level (4)

23 Sand hill (4)

24 Lust (6)

25 Cloak (4)

26 Stagger (4)

27 Dusk (6)

DOWN

1 Great (5)

2 Felt remorse (4)

3 Beam of light generator (5)

4 Greek letter (4)

5 Tooth covering (6)

6 Deal with (5)

11 Precious (4)

13 Unit of land (4)

15 From that place (6) 16 Type of tree (5)

18 Mountain range (5) 19 Cereal crop (5)

21 Type of meat (4) 22 Fail to hit (4)