Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
Cleaner has key to chamber (5) Share out animals (5)
Tear out of
Tripoli (3) Whisper to a team (5)
Aide’s unusual impressions (5) Nod back at lecturer (3) Study of cadences (3) Roderick has some poetry (3) Drink of character, say (3) Serioussounding chap (6)
Tender rose arrangement (4) Criminal’s snood (4) Fundamental right to a textbook (6)
29 Permit to hire (3) 31 Bemused with creature (3)
Ann drove around
Granny (3)
34 Drama about livestock (3)
Food and drink (5)
Fruit that’s round, as it happens (5)
38 Fasten around the neck (3) Month with alien group (5) 40 Fear movement
of adder (5) 1 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 21 23 26 32 36 37 39
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Bishop travels to see wives (6) Dire sort of journey (4) Cricketer useful in the kitchen (6) Artisan’s mother and child (5) Conceals pelts (5)
Fuss at a party (3)
Hire in Brentwood (4) Thus get attorney a drink (4) Somehow mined for material (5)
The golfer’s conceit (3)
More polite with salesman (3)
20 Definitely an
article (3)
22 Now employers have to be obliged (3)
24 Embellished or
terribly neat (6) 25 Damaged book indeed (6)
Send new timer (5)
28 Suppressed swan on the day (5)
29 Loud, disruptive
game (4)
30 Jog out of bistro, typically (4) When I get a great deal of land (4) Talented with a drink (3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 17 19 27 33 35 QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Sweeping tool (5)
5 Adult leverets (5)
9 Tear (3)
10 Stage comment (5) 11 Notions (5)
12 Professor (3)
13 Lair (3)
14 Poem (3)
16 Beverage (3)
18 Man’s name (6)
21 Painful (4)
23 Coat part (4)
26 Exercise book (6)
29 Allow (3)
31 Flightless bird (3)
32 Female relative (3) 34 Male sheep (3)
36 Charred bread (5) 37 Martini garnish (5) 38 Bind (3)
39 Eight-piece group (5) 40 Phobia (5)
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1 New spouses (6)
2 Drive (4)
3 First batsman (6)
4 Stone-worker (5)
5 Skins (5)
6 Bother (3)
7 Hire (4)
8 Sparkling water (4) 15 Tough fabric (5)
17 Self-image (3)
19 Agent (3)
20 Common word (3) 22 Be indebted to (3) 24 Decorated (6)
25 Damaged (6)
27 Area of authority (5) 28 Stifled (5)
29 Board game (4)
30 Horse’s gait (4)
33 Largest continent (4)
Beer (3) 35