Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Flyer has left start (6)

4 Reportedly start

race for ingredient (4)

7 No westerner

outside is obliged (4)

8 Box on right shows

sign of damage (6)

9 Sword gets record points (4)

10 Possibly airs dress (4)

12 Lone broadcast at Christmas (4) 14 Truth about groove (3)

16 Field of pleasure (3)

17 Time of confusion, say (4)

20 Figure it’s broken (4)

23 Spin the first vase (4)

24 Instructions that may be holy (6) 25 Made off with Dutch cheese (4) 26 Somehow pose as

something valuable (4)

27 Rocks ship with strange note (6)

DOWN

1 Detail about European plane (5) 2 Land in terrible rain (4)

3 Husky, say,

or another animal (5)

4 Burn report from prophet (4)

5 Yearn for a steeple (6)

6 Finished on time,

that’s obvious (5)

11 Everything unknown to friend (4) 13 Unusual to get

second chances (4)

15 Energy in new

brass weapons (6)

16 The French put

off diminishing (3-2)

18 A fellow’s in tiny bits (5)

19 Tries out cricket matches (5)

21 Loosen at

peacekeepers party (4)

22 Eager for knee operation (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Wince (6)

4 Edible starch (4)

7 Is indebted to (4)

8 Volcano mouth (6)

9 Fencing blade (4) 10 Indian garment (4)

12 Yuletide (4)

14 Furrow (3)

16 Meadow (3)

17 Periods

of 24 hours (4)

20 Sculpture (4)

23 Rotate (4)

24 Commands (6)

25 Type of cheese (4) 26 Currency unit (4) 27 Pebbles (6)

DOWN

1 Surface (5)

2 Tehran’s

country (4)

3 Equine

mammal (5)

4 Clairvoyant (4) 5 Work

towards (6)

6 Observable (5) 11 Companion (4) 13 Probabilities (4) 15 Swords (6)

16 Lessening (3-2) 18 Particles (5)

19 Samples (5)

21 Reverse (4)

22 Enthusiastic (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror