Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues ACROSS

Firework found in salad (6) Mark’s out of mascara (4) The shape of cricket in London? (4)

8 Talk about the French

house (6)

9 Note everyone has resentment (4)

Declare Vera to be mad (4) Life-changing tool (4)

Feel young around city (3) Pair from union in party (3) Music maker among flutes (4)

20 Honest old writer (4)

23 About poem being in secret

writing (4)

24 Deal in strange

contradiction (6)

25 Feeble sort of meal (4)

26 Dance film (4)

27 Tenner spent on cheese

ingredient (6) 1 4 7 10 12 14 16 17

DOWN

1 Reappear concerning

dog (5)

2 Caught rule on nail (4)

3 Whole time alto was

performing (5)

4 Ages wasted on

flavouring (4)

5 Wine and instrument – not

at home (6)

6 Broadcast race (5)

11 Invested with underwear (4) 13 Lies about some land (4)

15 Improvise some food (6)

16 Month to get gold

furnishings (5)

18 Beneath French and

German articles (5)

19 Distribute a toll

differently (5)

21 Pale sort of ring (4)

22 Creature of pride (4)

ACROSS

DOWN

1 Spaceship (6) 1 Happen

4 Traumatise (4) again (5)

7 Ellipse (4) 2 Talon (4)

8 Swiss villa (6) 3 Sum (5)

9 Impudence (4) 4 Herb (4)

10 State (4) 5 Red wine (6)

12 Dossier (4) 6 Pass on (5)

14 Cathedral city (3) 11 Singlet (4)

16 Twosome (3)

13 Land surrounded 17 Stringed by water (4) instrument (4)

Type of pasta (6) 20 Unwrap (4) 15

23 Cipher (4) 16 Furnishings (5) 24 Refusal (6) 18 Below (5)

25 Crippled (4) 19 Apportion (5)

26 Spool (4) 21 Chime (4)

27 Curdling agent (6) 22 Feline (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror