Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Staple changed colour (6) 4 Main part of ship is on the Humber (4) 7 Declare Vera to be mad (4) 8 Ranted about being passionate (6) 9 Arid sort of attack (4) 10 Picture one prisoner (4) 12 Wonderful penalty (4) 14 Roused about employment (3) 16 Woman from Esher (3) 17 Performs part of the bible (4) 20 Way out of Llanelly (4) 23 Late ordering duck (4) 24 New developments from city trial (6) 25 Follow the queue (4) 26 Regrets stratagem, we hear (4) 27 Trial or trade (6)

DOWN

1 Quiet nobleman is a gem (5) 2 Team dies away (4) 3 City can produce language (5) 4 The Roman’s conqueror (4) 5 Honour an usher around the planet (6) 6 Left on border of shelf (5) 11 Incentive to have money (4) 13 Land in terrible rain (4) 15 Tell engineers strange tale (6) 16 Instrument to fix stair (5) 18 Room to put old instrument (5) 19 Whole time alto performed (5) 21 Heard a girl’s sad cry (4) 22 Present during the recording (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Crayon (6) 4 Yorkshire city (4) 7 Assert (4) 8 Fanatical (6) 9 Inroad (4) 10 Religious image (4) 12 Sunny (4) 14 Exploit (3) 16 Pronoun (3) 17 Behaves (4) 20 Country road (4) 23 Greenish-blue (4) 24 Most recent (6) 25 Animal’s appendage (4) 26 Feels remorse (4) 27 Trauma (6) DOWN 1 Precious jewel (5) 2 Edge (4) 3 Old school subject (5) 4 Idol (4) 5 Celestial object (6) 6 Sill (5) 11 US coin (4) 13 M East country (4) 15 Narrate (6) 16 Indian ‘guitar’ (5) 18 Orchestra part (5) 19 Sum (5) 21 Expression of woe (4) 22 In this place (4)