Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Courage to get small tree (5) 5 Daily pressure to copy and run (5) 9 Hitting with can (3) 10 Hubbub is one problem (5)
11 Start playing notes (5)
12 Copy of tapestry (3) 13 Originally called in one engineer (3)
14 One worked for a long time (3) 16 Rubbish in grotto (3) 18 Decrepit tractor has no time for crop (6) 21 Sounds ready for home (4) 23 Employed American journalist (4) 26 Come out east and join (6)
29 British and American transport (3) 31 Is more than one? (3) 32 Inside, holding racket (3)
34 Produce island broadcast (3) 36 Small step into void (5)
37 Got up like a flower (5)
38 Mound of distortions (3) 39 Rinse out warning device (5)
40 Sent out with
European kids (5)
DOWN
1 Rocks ship with strange note (6) 2 Yearn for tree (4)
3 Creature found in group (6) 4 Come in from barren terrain (5)
5 Quiet set of keys (5)
6 Don’t start to draw breath at snake (3) 7 Look noble (4) 8 Entrusted with old iron? (4) 15 Arrange by command (5) 17 Verse from Roderick (3) 19 Devoured more than seven, say (3) 20 Draw a boat (3) 22 Bemused
with creature (3) 24 Seated, awfully
tranquil (6)
25 Awfully snide around right bistros (6) 27 Craftsman’s mother and child (5)
28 Change trees’
layout (5)
29 Chief sobs
wildly (4)
30 Mark’s out of mascara (4) 33 Picture one prisoner (4)
35 Raw material from forest (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Backbone (5)
5 Writing material (5) 9 Metal (3)
10 Sound (5)
11 Beginning (5)
12 Primate (3)
13 Born (3)
14 Era (3)
16 Decay (3)
18 Vegetable (6)
21 Badger’s home (4) 23 Second-hand (4) 26 Appear (6)
29 Coach (3)
31 Plural of is (3)
32 Clamour (3)
34 Lettuce (3)
36 Gap (5)
37 Stood (5)
38 Hill (3)
39 Temptress (5)
40 Adolescents (5)
DOWN
1 Pebbles (6)
2 Type of timber (4) 3 Creepy-crawly (6) 4 Go in (5)
5 Keyboard instrument (5)
6 Serpent (3)
7 Aristocrat (4)
8 Corrosion (4)
15 Arrangement (5)
17 Poem (3)
19 Consumed (3)
20 Pull (3)
22 Flightless bird (3) 24 Calm (6)
25 Greasy spoons (6) 27 Artisan (5)
28 Readjust (5)
29 Leader (4)
30 Disfigure (4)
33 Religious image (4) 35 Mineral (3)