Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Hard and fast going round tunnel (5)
5 Energy can’t improve play (5) 9 Chatting about headwear (3) 10 Right above dog (5)
11 Roam around after a smell (5) 12 Fewer around animal (3)
13 Study of cadences (3) 14 Firm with new prisoner (3)
16 Join a religious man (3)
18 Set tea out in the grounds (6) 21 Thus repeatedly mediocre (2-2) 23 Chap gets information on time (4) 26 Supporter of photography? (6) 29 Insect of character, say (3) 31 Roused about employment (3) 32 Juicer contains cold item (3)
34 Rushed out of France (3)
36 Croat turned performer (5) 37 Train with energy and weapon (5)
38 Honest about quantity (3) 39 Yours truly set new encounters (5) 40 Quiet socialist
has scrap (5)
DOWN
1 Hides sunglasses (6) 2 Hear about animal (4) 3 Compensates by throwing a stone (6)
4 Land pamphlet (5) 5 It happened in the
Seventies (5) 6 One writer’s novel (3)
7 Part of
Far East (4) 8 Incline towards care (4)
15 Fertile patch for a group (5) 17 Read on with lecturer (3) 19 Besotted with drinker (3)
20 The golfer’s
conceit (3)
22 Verse from
Roderick (3)
24 Chief rioted
unexpectedly (6) 25 Attach colour in layers (6) 27 Nurse translating letters (5)
28 Use spare
fruit (5)
29 Smile at
supporter (4)
30 Language in another sentence (4) 33 Once ordered ice cream (4) 35 Captain has fitting (3)
Solutions in Monday’s
Irish Daily Mirror
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Handle (5)
5 Make law (5)
9 Headwear item (3) 10 Wanderer (5)
11 Scent (5)
12 Female sheep (3)
13 Lair (3)
14 Deceive (3)
16 Append (3)
18 Landed property (6) 21 Average (2-2)
23 Honourable man (4) 26 Camera stand (6) 29 Hive creature (3)
31 Exploit (3)
32 Frozen water (3)
34 Sprinted (3)
36 Thespian (5)
37 Javelin (5)
38 Single (3)
39 Is introduced to (5) 40 Scrap (5)
DOWN
1 Obscures (6)
2 Small mammal (4) 3 Makes amends (6) 4 Stretch of land (5) 5 Occurrence (5) 6 Fresh (3)
7 Region (4)
8 Look after (4) 15 Desert’s watering hole (5)
17 Mafia boss (3)
19 Drunkard (3)
20 Self-image (3)
22 Poem (3)
24 Newspaper head (6) 25 Layered (6)
27 Ancient symbols (5) 28 Perry ingredient (5) 29 Ray of light (4)
30 Gaelic (4)
33 Geometric figure (4) 35 Suitable (3)