Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

Improved as a gambler (6) Feeble meat recipe (4) Writer depicting void (4) Stop and apprehend (6) Room to return and secure boat (4)

10 Finished six deliveries (4)

12 Race around some land (4) 14 Swimmer feeling around (3) 16 Lion found in galleon (3)

17 Bit of compartment (4)

20 Old soldiers get sign (4)

23 Get a new entrance (4)

24 Hate being tested,

possibly (6)

25 Language in

another sentence (4)

26 Prudence gets

discourteous (4)

27 Star ready for evening (6) 1 4 7 8 9

DOWN

Officers’ money (5)

Started with quiche (4) Reversible hub? (5)

Item moving in the fourth dimension (4)

5 Loved to bother socialist (6) 6 Sign up loner, somehow (5) 11 Ever-changing swerve (4)

13 Manage firm exercise (4)

15 Toledo got sacked, sadly (6) 16 Large order for drink (5)

18 Danes out of range (5)

19 Met to compose song (5)

21 Only a lake (4)

22 Blessed with not as much (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror 1 2 3 4

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

DOWN

Superior (6) Alloy (5) Domesticated (4) Flan (4)

Roman poet (4) Helicopter part (5) Take into Occasion (4) custody (6) Cherished (6)

9 Heath (4) Enlist (5)

10 Above (4) Change

12 Unit of land (4) direction (4)

14 Long fish (3) Deal

successfully (4)

16 Zodiac sign (3)

Plundered (6)

17 Section (4)

Beer (5)

20 Portent (4)

Mountain

23 Portal (4) range (5)

24 Loathe (6) 19 Religious song (5) 25 Gaelic (4) 21 Just (4)

26 Impolite (4) 22 Smaller

27 Dusk (6) amount (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror 1 4 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 11

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