Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues
ACROSS
1 Type of leather, that’s obvious (6)
4 Mark’s out of mascara (4) 7 Lazy-sounding hero (4) 8 Engineers have couple to fix (6)
9 Crazy about one domestic (4)
10 We’re off to get a jug (4) 12 Maiden held assistant (4) 14 Hearsay about organ (3) 16 End of stipulation (3) 17 Appealing to reduce energy (4)
20 Old friend gets a stone (4)
23 Yearn for a tree (4)
24 See car delivered
to batsman’s place (6)
25 Break a leg in a storm (4)
26 Woman has time for ingredient (4) 27 Remember about visit (6)
DOWN
1 Super design for bag (5) 2 Sort to use a machine to write (4)
3 Tried working, exhausted (5)
4 Total, say, or just part (4) 5 Clear out on time to have some wine (6) 6 Navigation aid that looks both ways (5)
11 Point stew out (4)
13 In and around former empire (4)
15 Cadge from cleaner (6) 16 Pasta turned out to be Spanish food (5)
18 Cruel sort of complaint (5) 19 Turn wife on part of foot (5) 21 Answer found in favourite fuel (4)
22 Long story about a gas (4)
Quick clues
ACROSS
1 Copyright (6) 4 Disfigurement (4) 7 Object of worship (4)
8 Mend (6)
9 Servant (4)
10 Pitcher (4)
12 Attendant (4)
14 Listening organ (3)
16 Gratuity (3)
17 Lovely (4)
20 Gem (4)
23 Type of
timber (4)
24 Fold (6)
25 Strong wind (4)
26 Animal fat (4)
27 Recollect (6)
DOWN
1 Wallet (5)
2 Kind (4)
3 Weary (5)
4 Just a few (4)
5 Red wine (6) 6 Radiolocation (5) 11 Sunset direction (4) 13 Ancient
Peruvian (4)
15 Loofah (6)
16 Spanish snacks (5)
18 Painful affliction (5)
19 Circle (5)
21 Solid fuel (4)
22 Prose narrative (4)