Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
Walk backwards? Skill for politician (5) Plums sadly in collapse (5) He has to steal (3)
Superior shoe part (5)
Bream changed colour (5)
Shade of credibility (3) Originally called in one engineer (3) Betting on a spring (3) Roused about employment (3) Layers of linen (6) Language in another sentence (4) Soar off using paddles (4) Criticises cooks (6)
29 Favourite dog, say (3)
Talented with a drink (3)
Started with sailor (3)
34 Animal in glasses (3)
Cuter form of armistice (5) Beer around a coat (5)
38 Supporter of golf? (3)
Woman set out eating requirements (5) 40 Severe at the
back (5)
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DOWN
Canter off in a daze (6)
More excited by city (4)
Babes transported by second cleric (6) Super design for bag (5) Different parts of fish (5) Shelter from sleet (3)
Our Duncan’s tongue (4) Constitute a pretence (4) Plead to change bicycle part (5) Teacher back in prison (3) That woman’s in the right (3) 20 Besotted with
drinker (3)
22 About to have nothing but eggs (3)
24 Sharp statue
design (6)
25 Hide monitor (6) Watering hole for a group (5) 28 Arranges report
for homes (5) 29 Walk like a
policeman (4) 30 Recording a pet playing (4) Care about tree (4)
Relaxed during conversation (3)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 17 19 27 33 35 QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Vagrant (5)
5 Fall heavily (5)
9 Thieve (3)
10 Top (5)
11 Fossilised resin (5) 12 Blushing (3)
13 Born (3)
14 Health farm (3)
16 Utilise (3)
18 Bed linen (6)
21 Gaelic (4)
23 Sculls (4)
26 Cooks in the oven (6) 29 Domestic animal (3) 31 Beer (3)
32 Pitch (3)
34 Donkey (3)
36 Ceasefire (5)
37 Emulsion (5)
38 Golf peg (3)
39 Regimens (5)
40 Serious (5)
DOWN
1 Hypnotic state (6)
2 European capital (4) 3 Clergywoman (6)
4 Wallet (5)
5 Small fish (5)
6 Man’s name (3)
7 Asian language (4) 8 Sit (4)
15 Foot lever (5)
17 Term of respect (3) 19 Pronoun (3)
20 Drunkard (3)
22 Caviar (3)
24 Perceptive (6)
25 Partition (6)
27 Desert’s fertile patch (5)
28 Badgers’ holes (5) 29 Walk heavily (4)
30 Adhesive strip (4) 33 Small maple (4)
35 Perched (3)