Two-speed coffeebreak

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

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Commendation for quiet

lift (6)

4 Officers’ room in

confusion (4)

7 Nothing about a form of digital protection (4)

Race to small issue (6)

Last order for sailor (4) Point a set out (4)

Left some wine (4)

One worked for a long time (3)

16 Expert in tracery (3)

17 Inclination to design

pram (4)

20 Regarded as part of play,

say (4)

23 Equal with one couple (4) 24 Garden’s unusual peril (6) 25 Groped around for

fastening (4)

26 Creatures from the west (4) 27 Outrage, having lost second

shoe (6) 8

9 10

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DOWN

1 Adhesive to fix a step (5)

2 Wary exchange is wrong (4) 3 Come in from barren

terrain (5)

4 Lack a young woman (4)

5 Happy to be told not to

start (6)

6 Unfortunate stain on

cloth (5)

11 Tiny part of a cat (4)

13 Dog really captured

fiend (4)

15 Wish to reside differently (6) 16 Enough to have beer with

politician (5)

18 Danes out of range (5)

19 Wild fellow, real trouble (5) 21 God of the roses (4)

22 Old keys (4)

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Quick clues

ACROSS

DOWN

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1 Extol (6) 1 Glue (5)

4 Untidy state (4) 2 Amiss (4)

7 Metal fastener (4) 3 Go in (5)

8 Run fast (6) 4 Fail to hit (4)

9 Seasoning (4) 5 Delighted (6) 10 Compass direction (4) 6 Material (5)

12 Harbour (4) 11 Particle (4) 14 Age (3) 13 Monster (4) 16 Playing card (3) 15 Lust (6)

17 Slope (4) 16 Sufficient (5) 20 Spotted (4) 18 Mountain

23 Twosome (4) system (5) 24 Jeopardy (6) 19 Savage (5) 25 Cord (4) 21 Greek

26 Female sheep (4) deity (4)

27 Open shoe (6) 22 Elderly (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

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