Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Move to German

boundary (6)

4 Wish for wife to join

worker (4)

7 Managed to get one in bad

conditions (4)

8 Priest played in band (6)

9 Most arguments are about

celebrity (4)

10 Spot registered prophet (4)

12 Price upsetting Scot (4)

14 Fireman’s wrath (3)

16 Wonder in drawer (3)

17 Repeat in the choir (4)

20 Wonderful penalty (4)

23 Ours turned resentful (4) 24 Story of the foot? (6)

25 Sounds like the only

spirit (4)

26 Afterwards from both

ends (4)

27 Start with unacceptable

group (6)

DOWN

1 Got us generating

vigour (5)

2 Spoil eastern horse (4)

3 Stressing about lock (5)

4 We take one school to be

learned (4)

5 Martin travelled a

county (6)

6 Reticent about trees (5)

11 Fletcher’s groove (4)

13 Honest old writer (4)

15 Deny it’s rubbish (6)

16 Tessa returned something

valuable (5)

18 Room only for

instrument (5)

19 Arrange debit for

bathroom item (5)

21 Press club (4)

22 Blessed with not as

much (4)

Quick clues

ACROSS

1 Opening move (6) 4 Desire (4)

7 Precipitation (4)

8 Chevron (6)

9 Sun (4)

10 Clairvoyant (4)

12 Expense (4)

14 Anger (3)

16 Amazement (3)

17 Resound (4)

20 Sunny (4)

23 Bitter (4)

24 Myth (6)

25 Type of music (4) 26 At that time (4) 27 Beginning (6)

DOWN

19

1 Enthusiasm (5)

2 Female horse (4)

3 Plait of hair (5)

4 Sagacious (4)

5 District of N

Ireland (6)

6 Curt (5)

11 Engrave (4)

13 Unwrap (4)

15 Disobey (6)

16 Thing of value (5)

18 Stringed

instrument (5)

19 Bathroom fitment (5) 21 Element (4)

22 Fewer (4)

Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror