Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
Victor finds a politician behind church (5)
Panic that wakes you up (5)
Shade of credibility (3) Large order for drink (5)
Roam around after a smell (5) Devoured more than seven, say (3) Mound of distortions (3) Hardly sending ton back (3) Perform in Clacton (3) Cricket team’s legs (6)
Dire sort of journey (4) Pleased with simplicity (4) Look like a goose (6)
29 Guided by small light (3)
Shelter from sleet (3)
Mother has time for rug (3)
34 Traitor within fraternity (3) Raged about classification (5) Moving near a venue (5)
38 Study of cadences (3) Keen to agree to change (5)
40 Last change includes new inclination (5)
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DOWN
Box on right shows sign of damage (6)
The Roman’s conqueror (4) Loved to bother socialist (6) Flying conveyance’s surface (5) A portal of stone (5)
Permit to hire (3)
Part of the
Far East (4) Flavouring that makes money (4) Sheepish round wine producer (5) Produce island broadcast (3) Member of whole group (3) 20 Originally called in one engineer (3)
22 Fired with fury (3) 24 A drama about
some ships (6) 25 Range of former shelter (6) Change shape later (5)
28 Remove oxygen, say, from artist (5) 29 Mislay sole
arrangement (4) 30 Main road is a nuisance (4) Dean lost port (4)
Is more than one? (3)
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Solutions in Monday’s Irish Daily Mirror QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Winner (5)
5 Sudden terror (5) 9 Colour (3)
10 Beer (5)
11 Scent (5)
12 Consumed (3)
13 Hill (3)
14 Negative (3)
16 Behave (3)
18 Number (6)
21 Travel (4)
23 Relax (4)
26 Male goose (6) 29 Went ahead (3)
31 Man’s name (3) 32 Floor covering (3) 34 Rodent (3)
36 Mark (5)
37 Amphitheatre (5) 38 Lair (3)
39 Enthusiastic (5) 40 Slope (5)
DOWN
1 Bomb-hole (6)
2 Idol (4)
3 Cherished (6)
4 Aircraft (5)
5 Gemstone (5)
6 Allow (3)
7 Region (4)
8 Herb (4)
15 Sheeplike (5)
17 Lettuce (3)
19 Limb (3)
20 Born (3)
22 Wrath (3)
24 Fleet (6)
25 Scope (6)
27 Transform (5) 28 French artist (5) 29 Be defeated (4) 30 Haul (4)
33 Coastal city in Yemen (4) Plural of is (3) 35