Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

Overindulge bear, say (6)

Hear about a creature (4) Blade gets record points (4) Horror writer with twitch — symbolic (6)

New star of design and music (4)

Loosen at a French party (4) Alright for painter to have a vegetable (4)

14 Spinning around pub (3)

16 City of priority (3)

17 Tidy in one attempt (4)

20 Rubbish on a list (4)

23 Follower has left some food (4) 24 Bet doctor is inside storm (6) 25 German university

students get the bird (4)

26 Animals from the west (4)

27 Authority is old and saucy (6) 1 4 7 8

9

10 12

DOWN

Student of vision? (5)

Lone broadcast at Christmas (4)

Reappear concerning dog (5) Scan a red construction (4) Brave choir performed with energy (6)

Sonar involved in crime (5) As an alternative to a group of spacemen (4)

13 Superman’s county? (4)

15 Hunt for a long time (6)

16 Search for a weapon (5)

18 Good score, for a flyer (5)

19 Divided around one side (5) 21 The burden we bear (4)

22 Former learner round

with eastern instrument (4)

1 2

3 4 5

6 11

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Gratify (6)

4 Emu relative (4)

7 Fencing sword (4) 8 Figurative (6)

9 Crafts (4)

10 Reverse (4)

12 Ladies’ fingers (4) 14 Tavern (3)

16 Brazilian city (3) 17 Smart (4)

20 Schedule (4)

23 Baked dish (4)

24 Wager (6)

25 Seaside

scavenger (4)

26 Female sheep (4) 27 Specialist (6)

DOWN

Schoolchild (5) Yuletide (4) Happen again (5) Peruse (4) Courageous (6) Fire-raising (5) Space agency (4) English county (4)

Look for food (6) Type of gun (5) Winged predator (5)

19 Split (5)

21 Responsibility (4) 22 Woodwind

instrument (4) 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 13

15 16 18

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror