Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Film sprig (5) 5 Organised sound puts volume back in charge (5)

9 Opt to change upper garment (3)

10 Lift gets more money (5) 11 Animated a veil badly (5) 12 Lose argument about the

Baltic, say (3) 13 Swan enclosure (3) 14 Woman from Esher (3) 16 Gladstone’s son (3) 18 Safeguard space and get positive (6) 21 Pleased with simplicity (4) 23 Huge vats are used (4) 26 Implement right inside cloth (6) 29 Field of pleasure (3) 31 Honest about quantity (3) 32 Creature of romance (3)

34 Stop a woman with a hand (3) 36 Abode fashioned in brick (5)

37 Pears used as a weapon (5)

38 Ready for collection (3) 39 Guide a bullock (5)

40 Arranges report for homes (5)

DOWN

1 Principal design for plates (6) 2 Gap sounds complete (4) 3 Mentions old trees (6) 4 Stressed about lock (5) 5 Commiserated with skinflint (5) 6 Roused about employment (3) 7 Animal is close (4) 8 Temperature that can be caught (4) 15 Wasted hour on new lake (5) 17 Animal in glasses (3)

19 Catch in one trap (3)

20 Level with first

woman (3)

22 Wonder in drawer (3)

24 Last to work with doctor? Not quite (6)

25 The empty traps show principles (6) 27 Argumentative sportsman (5) 28 Damages goods, we hear (5) 29 Blessed with not as much (4) 30 Collapsed around part of church (4)

33 Beat up to help lawbreaker (4) 35 Copy of tapestry (3)

Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Fire (5)

5 Art form (5)

9 Summit (3)

10 Elevate (5)

11 In existence (5)

12 Body of water (3) 13 Write (3)

14 Pronoun (3)

16 Boy (3)

18 Make certain (6)

21 Relax (4)

23 Immense (4)

26 Tiny spade? (6)

29 Meadow (3)

31 Single (3)

32 Male (3)

34 Animal’s hand (3) 36 Type of brick (5)

37 Javelin (5)

38 Solidify (3)

39 Navigate (5)

40 Badgers’ homes (5)

DOWN

1 Metal fastener (6) 2 Opening (4)

3 Gives a view (6) 4 Lock of hair (5) 5 Mean person (5) 6 Utilise (3)

7 Aquatic mammal (4)

8 Chilly (4)

15 Great Lake (5)

17 Donkey (3)

19 Mesh (3)

20 Previous day (3)

22 Amazement (3)

24 Nearly (6)

25 Sets of beliefs (6) 27 Oarsman (5)

28 Erodes (5)

29 Smaller amount (4) 30 Domed recess (4) 33 Aid in crime (4)

35 Primate (3)