Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Pressure put on husband with single call (5) 5 Point duel out to avoid (5)
9 A great deal of flotsam (3) 10 Equestrian clause (5) 11 Change later, perhaps (5)
12 Dog returned to supreme being (3) 13 Originally called in one editor (3) 14 Fewer around livestock (3)
16 Run off to get receptacle (3) 18 Raid carried out on quiet plant (6)
21 Cricket match can be a trial (4) 23 Employer’s new ruse (4)
26 Cricket team’s legs (6)
29 Graduate with love for scarf (3) 31 Honest about quantity (3) 32 Low-flying bird (3)
34 Stop a woman with a hand (3) 36 Sign up loner, somehow (5) 37 Curse faulty wares (5)
38 Level with first woman (3)
39 Guide a bullock (5)
40 Supported team,
on the day (5)
DOWN
1 Surface temperature on Mars, say (6) 2 Gap sounds complete (4) 3 Animals ordered to rest (6)
4 Queen and socialist strayed (5) 5 Hedge set around borders (5)
6 Sign from galleon (3)
7 Our Duncan’s tongue (4)
8 Still in the venture (4) 15 Expand women’s group study (5) 17 Feel remorse, the French way (3)
19 Bit more than seven, say (3) 20 Huge without
third colour (3) 22 The golfer’s
conceit (3)
24 Slept soundly? (6) 25 Turned to journalist after snack (6)
27 Inferior cow? (5) 28 Ever-changing
small swerves (5) 29 Chief sobs
wildly (4)
30 Collapsed around part of church (4) 33 English took up vow and used loom (4) 35 Wonder inside drawer (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Blower? (5)
5 Evade (5)
9 Auction item (3) 10 Horseman (5) 11 Transform (5)
12 Deity (3)
13 Born as (3)
14 Female sheep (3) 16 Vase (3)
18 Salad vegetable (6) 21 Examine (4) 23 Consumer (4) 26 Number (6) 29 Constrictor (3) 31 Number (3)
32 Tawny or barn? (3) 34 Animal’s foot (3) 36 Enlist (5) 37 Blaspheme (5) 38 Previous day (3) 39 Navigate (5) 40 Favoured (5)
DOWN
1 Celestial body (6) 2 Opening (4)
3 River mammals (6) 4 Made a mistake (5) 5 Margins (5)
6 Zodiac Lion (3) 7 Asian language (4) 8 Divisible by two (4) 15 Broaden (5)
17 Regret (3) 19 Consumed (3) 20 Shade (3) 22 Self-image (3) 24 Slept noisily (6) 25 Tumbled (6) 27 Reduce (5) 28 Changes direction (5) 29 Leader (4)
30 Domed recess (4) 33 Entwined (4) 35 Amazement (3)
Solutions in Monday’s Irish Daily Mirror