Two-speed coffeebreak QUICK CLUES

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

Pound for a flour mixture (6) Most unexcited about song (4)

Picture one prisoner (4) Brigade in lone arrangement with soldier (6) Hand fits awkwardly (4) Drunkard gets loud, then quiet (4)

Betting journalist was rushed (4)

14 Wander out of terror (3)

16 Partner’s painting (3)

17 Got up like a flower (4)

20 Damn vermin (4)

23 Left atmosphere in burrow (4) 24 Purpose of camping? (6)

25 Yearn for a tree (4)

26 Bound to change diet (4)

27 Flexible game (6) 1 4

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Fashion a slab of wood (5)

Got a new dress (4)

Remove soap from broken siren (5)

Tenor leaving to peer (4) Joined the team (6)

Come in from barren terrain (5) Does translate some verse (4)

13 Left some wine (4)

15 Band unsettling priest (6)

16 Distribute a great deal, say (5) 18 Rosie damaged tree (5)

19 Croat turned performer (5)

21 Raid failed without water (4)

22 Overburdened with a word (4) Solutions in next week’s

Sunday Mirror 1 2 3

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ACROSS

Strike repeatedly (6) Melody (4) Religious image (4)

Military division (6)

9 Clenched hand (4) 10 Mild (4)

12 Raced (4)

14 Stray (3)

16 Craft (3)

17 Romantic gift (4) 20 Rodents (4)

23 Den (4)

24 Determined (6)

25 Conifer (4)

26 Fastened (4)

27 Tree product (6)

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Type of wood (5) Roman gown (4)

Wash out (5) Aristocrat, informally (4) Merged (6)

Go in (5)

Poems (4) Harbour (4)

Line (6) Apportion (5) Willow (5) Thespian (5)

Dry (4)

Action word (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror