Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
1 Somehow get man
something attractive (6)
4 A study in port (4)
7 Eric prepared some food (4) 8 Reliable place for horses (6)
9 College of note, possibly (4) 10 Sensitive rose
arrangement (4)
12 Throw sots out (4)
14 Relaxed during
conversation (3)
16 Lashed around charred
remains (3)
17 Declare a victory to old
wife (4)
20 Part of the play? (4)
23 Move in prison (4)
24 Entertain fellow with
beer (6)
25 Officers’ room in
confusion (4)
26 Spat out bathroom
accessories (4)
27 Require directions to
follow (6)
DOWN
1 Artisan’s mother and child (5)
2 Seize outlandish garb (4)
3 Stressed about lock (5)
4 Care about tree (4)
5 Hate being tested, maybe (6)
6 Band transported tonne (5) 11 Place in Czechoslovakia (4) 13 Old friend put on stone (4) 15 Seafood for short person (6) 16 Something valuable, as arranged (5)
18 Conversed about poetry (5) 19 Arrange letters for a while (5)
21 Raw materials from forest (4)
22 Girl at a party (4)
Quick clues
ACROSS 1 Fridge decoration (6)
4 Yemeni city (4)
7 Cereal crop (4)
8 Outbuilding (6)
9 Public school (4)
10 Painful (4) 12 Chuck (4) 14 Took a chair (3)
16 Silvery grey colour (3)
17 Confess (4)
20 Character (4) 23 Mix (4)
24 Amuse (6) 25 Untidy state (4)
26 Faucets (4)
27 Necessitate (6)
DOWN
1 Stoneworker (5) 2 Snatch (4) 3 Plait of hair (5) 4 Maple genus (4) 5 Loathe (6) 11 6 Nine-piece European capital group (4) (5) 13 Gem (4) 15 Edible crustacean (6) 16 Thing of value (5) 18 Stanza (5) 19 Magic formula (5) 21 Minerals (4) 22 Formal celebration (4)
Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror