Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Time to jump (6)

4 Grinding round skin (4)

7 Melanie has style (4)

8 Capital to behold new professor (6)

9 Time to order something (4) 10 Loosen at a French party (4) 12 Save broken receptacle (4) 14 Heard no-one as devout as her (3)

16 Don’t stand for a fib (3)

17 In France you double the skirt (4)

20 Tom’s broken more than half (4)

23 Grooms have space (4)

24 The rat posed a menace (6) 25 Weary of strange rite (4)

26 Small group, owing to time (4)

27 Ignore troubled area (6)

DOWN

1 Loans arranged at the hairdresser’s (5)

2 Called for a step (4)

3 Clever person loses one kind (5)

4 Arid sort of attack (4)

5 Recite one tin’s recipe (6)

6 Show new spirit (5)

11 Unfortunately sent home (4)

13 Performs part of the bible (4)

15 Distant handset (6)

16 Left university, free to be sensational (5)

18 Total state (5)

19 Graduate not waving stick (5)

21 Leave out of room itself (4) 22 Spirit of superiority (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Season (6)

4 Peel (4)

7 Dash, flair (4)

8 European capital (6) 9 List entry (4)

10 Reverse (4)

12 Urn (4)

14 Devout woman (3) 16 Untruth (3)

17 Ballet skirt (4)

20 Majority (4)

23 Chamber (4)

24 Warning (6)

25 Grow weary (4)

26 Song for two (4)

27 District (6)

DOWN

1 Parlour (5)

2 Ladder part (4) 3 Type (5)

4 Inroad (4)

5 Chant (6)

6 Devil (5)

11 Bird’s home (4) 13 Behaves (4)

15 Far (6)

16 Graphic (5)

18 Voice (5)

19 Conductor’s stick (5)

21 Neglect (4)

22 Supernatural being (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror