Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Account from soldiers left behind (6) 4 English medic hurried to get hugged (8) 8 A couple of females in showy jewellery? That’s difficult to understand (8) 9 Warden changed name (6) 10 Period of time said to make you feeble (4) 11 Removes flies from runway (5, 3) 14 There’s much joy among relations (7) 16 Aromatic substance with popular smells, might one say? (7) 18 Former wife writes epistle, initially, to get money laid out (7) 20 Devotee, in fact, gets excited about second part of match (7) 22 Every single sailor

lost? (3, 2, 3) 24 Place that’s tops? Quite the reverse (4) 26 Bicycle’s turn beginning and me facing the wrong way (6) 27 TV presenter Kelly seen in Gallic region (8) 28 Music composed

in shop yard (8) 29 Father joins girl

for Spanish dish (6)

DOWN

1 Polish tip of yellow gem (4) 2 Clumsy fencer, oft unbalanced (3-6) 3 Suppose it’s a song by Aretha Franklin (5) 4 Number of substantial importance? Not at first (6) 5 Chain of mountains: practise shooting here (5) 6 Funny drawing, love, has been placed in box (7)

7 Comedienne using foreign language early in the day? (4, 6) 12 Mr Livingstone needs year to get to a country on the equator (5) 13 Charitable sort providing cow meat and old ham, possibly, about noon (10) 15 Rock band welcomed by desert travellers? (5) 17 Eastern political party has to speak in great detail (9) 19 Pat and Noel cooked Italian food (7) 21 Ship’s kitchen a place to exhibit paintings? Not right (6) 23 Hairpiece acceptable to actresses? (5) 24 Fight for

a morsel (5) 25 Foreign character,

partly Tibetan (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Annual statement of pupil’s progress (6) 4 Accepted eagerly (8) 8 Perplexing, puzzling (8) 9 — Marr, political broadcaster (6) 10 and 24 Achilles heel? (4, 4) 11 Impersonates (5, 3) 14 High spirits (7) 16 Enrage (7) 18 Cost, charge (7) 20 Zealot (7) 22 In a complete state of confusion (3, 2, 3) 24 See 10 Across 26 In —, together (6) 27 Quiche —,

savoury flan (8) 28 Bohemian —,

Queen hit (8) 29 Dish of rice, shellfish, chicken and veg (6)

DOWN

1 Deep-red colour (4) 2 Displaced from the middle point or axis (3-6) 3 Cogitate (5) 4 Fourscore (6) 5 Rural stove (5) 6 Animated film (7) 7 Star of The Vicar of Dibley (4, 6) 12 Mount —, African peak (5) 13 One who gives to a cause (10) 15 Group fronted by the Gallagher brothers (5) 17 Complex, ornate (9) 19 Thick porridge made from maize (7) 21 Ancient war vessel (6) 23 Lock, curl (5) 24 Waste metal (5) 25 Second letter of the

Greek alphabet (4)