Two-speed coffeebreak

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

ACROSS

1 Traces out some sugar (6) 4 Time to gain a relative (4) 7 Creepy-sounding lake (4) 8 Please run and go by (6) 9 Spin back small amounts (4) 10 Main road is a pain (4) 12 Save up for a receptacle (4) 14 Furnish a yak with fodder (3)

16 Has turned into a tree (3) 17 Pole forced to walk (4) 20 Honest old writer (4)

23 Mix in prison (4)

24 Pay to get comfortable (6) 25 Yield a plant ovule, say (4) 26 Article unknown to those people (4) 27 Register for a large drink (6)

DOWN

1 Musical game (5) 2 Cleaner sort of opera (4) 3 Rushes communists with energy (5) 4 Woman ain’t wrong (4) 5 Importance of stone, say (6) 6 Horrid year after Stan went off (5) 11 Gather pear was cooked (4) 13 Sailor finds the French skilful (4) 15 Excellent selection (6) 16 Tessa returned something valuable (5) 18 Start playing notes (5) 19 Article with myself as subject (5) 21 Reportedly ask for quarry (4) 22 Knock the bust over (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Wheel (6) 4 Identical sibling? (4) 7 Great Lake (4) 8 Pass by (6) 9 Pinches (4) 10 Heave (4)

12 Urn (4)

14 Dried grass (3) 16 Charred remains (3) 17 Long stride (4) 20 Unwrap (4) 23 Move (4) 24 Colonise (6) 25 Surrender (4) 26 Pronoun (4) 27 Triple (6)

DOWN

1 Board game (5) 2 Cleaning substance (4) 3 Water plants (5) 4 Ms Fey? (4) 5 Heaviness (6) 6 Unpleasant (5) 11 Harvest (4) 13 Competent (4) 15 Option (6) 16 Thing of worth (5) 18 Beginning (5) 19 Topic (5) 21 Victim (4) 22 Counterfoil (4) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror