Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Time to jump (6)

4 Thus get attorney a drink (4) 7 Employer’s new ruse (4) 8 Canter off in a daze (6) 9 Lame sort of gender (4) 10 Lois managed to get the dirt (4)

12 Crazy flyers (4)

14 A great deal of flotsam (3) 16 Exclude from pub (3)

17 Utensil wasted loot (4)

20 College of note, possibly (4) 23 Open a container (4)

24 Band unsettling priest (6) 25 Feeble meat recipe (4)

26 Phase pets out (4)

27 Sent remit with British

sound (6)

DOWN

1 Instrument to fix stair (5) 2 Way out of the Broads (4) 3 Reckoned on reporting caller (5)

4 Miser loses right to raze house (4) 5 Verbally get round meeting (6) 6 Prevent rave developing on time (5)

11 Capital of Czechoslovakia (4) 13 Register changes a lot (4) 15 Make box to contain energy (6)

16 Officers’ money (5)

18 Start playing notes (5) 19 Article with yours truly as subject (5)

21 Catch wrong prat (4)

22 Climbing around branch (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Season (6) 4 Sparkling water (4) 7 Consumer (4) 8 Hypnotic state (6) 9 Masculine (4) 10 Earth (4) 12 Vampire mammals? (4)

14 Auction item (3) 16 Ingot (3)

17 Implement (4) 20 Public school (4) 23 Not quite shut (4) 24 Line (6)

25 Domesticated (4) 26 Stair (4)

27 Sound quality (6)

DOWN

1 Indian ‘guitar’ (5) 2 Street (4) 3 Visitor (5) 4 Suburban home (4) 5 By word of mouth (6) 6 Turn away (5) 11 European capital (4)

13 Singing voice (4) 15 Invent (6)

16 Alloy (5)

18 Beginning (5)

19 Topic (5)

21 Snare (4)

22 Body part (4)