Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

Seafood provides strength, we hear (6)

4 Flea chewing sheet of paper (4) 7 Like a family (4)

8 Authority is old and saucy (6) 9 A study of port (4)

10 Cure using shade (4)

12 Worry about race (4)

14 Shade of credibility (3)

16 Ruin in Denmark (3)

17 Line travelled by river (4)

20 Care about shrub (4)

23 Attorney volunteers

information (4)

24 Mentions old evergreens (6) 25 Hot place in Coventry (4)

26 Heal dog, to a point (4)

27 Small insect has

a small amount (6)

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Yours truly set new encounters (5)

Pass around drains (4) Afterwards alter shape (5)

Rail about fibber (4)

Last to finish by river (6) Punished for sunny day (5) Cancellation includes room (4) Spots cane construction (4) Speaker finds gold by a hill (6) Doctor is in some dictionaries (5)

Press joins small clubs (5) Reportedly throw social class (5)

21 Caught greeting in hollow (4) 22 Woman to dine out (4) Solutions in next week’s

Sunday Mirror

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QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Edible mollusc (6) 4 Tree part (4)

7 Similar (4)

8 Specialist (6)

9 Yemeni city (4)

10 Linen colour (4) 12 Attention (4)

14 Crimson (3)

16 Spoil (3)

17 African river (4) 20 Japanese

maple (4)

23 Facts (4)

24 Utters a view (6) 25 Kiln (4)

26 Remedy (4)

27 Iota (6)

DOWN

Comes across (5) Weakens (4) Subsequently (5) Dishonest person (4) Tolerate (6) Penalised (5) Prison room (4) Skin complaint (4) Speech-giver (6) Health worker (5)

18 Smooths (5)

19 Social group (5) 21 Grotto (4)

22 Ms Blyton? (4) 1 2 3 4

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Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror