Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Trudge to first broken pram (5) 5 Bechamel? Impudence! (5) 9 Tease tribe endlessly (3) 10 Gathers pears were cooked (5) 11 Nowadays have time for proverb (5) 12 Supporter of sport? (3)

13 Catch in one trap (3)

14 Voice, for example (3)

16 Study of cadences (3) 18 Safeguard space and get positive (6)

21 Pleased with simplicity (4) 23 Understanding German epitaph (4)

26 Come out east and join (6)

29 Sign from galleon (3)

31 Is more than one? (3) 32 Remote RAF manoeuvre (3) 34 Neither out of ignorance (3) 36 Tapeworm? Coincidence (5) 37 Plants one after key performance (5) 38 Offence of losing (3) 39 Equate ethics with food processors (5)

40 The first to hire a river (5)

DOWN

1 Canter off in a daze (6)

2 Dire sort of journey (4) 3 Diminishes a beast, somehow (6) 4 Reporters insist (5)

5 Minor deity threw trays (5) 6 Copy of tapestry (3) 7 Employed American journalist (4)

8 Still in the venture (4) 15 Change gear with uranium implement (5) 17 Delighted with name (3) 19 Originally called in one engineer (3) 20 Encourage farm produce (3) 22 Talented with a drink (3)

24 Deny it’s rubbish (6) 25 Somehow entrap guardian (6) 27 Time to parade (5) 28 Engineers suitable for renovation (5) 29 Tool exchanged for money (4) 30 Formerly in concert (4) 33 Like a family (4) 35 Grain of loathing (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Vagrant (5) 5 Condiment (5) 9 Chest bone (3) 10 Harvests (5) 11 Maxim (5)

12 Golf peg (3)

13 Mesh (3)

14 Declare (3)

16 Lair (3)

18 Make certain (6) 21 Relax (4)

23 Grasp (4)

26 Appear (6) 29 Zodiac Lion (3) 31 Plural of is (3) 32 Distant (3)

34 And not (3)

36 Freak stroke of luck (5)

37 Prickly plants (5) 38 Transgression (3) 39 Molars (5) 40 English river (5)

DOWN

1 Hypnotic state (6) 2 Travel (4) 3 Subsides (6) 4 Squeeze (5) 5 Woodland god (5) 6 Primate (3) 7 Second-hand (4) 8 Level (4)

15 Boring tool (5) 17 Man’s name (3) 19 Born (as) (3) 20 Ovum (3)

22 Beer (3)

24 Disobey (6) 25 Mother or father (6)

27 Month (5)

28 Furnish again (5) 29 Plunder (4)

30 On a single occasion (4) 33 Similar (4)

35 Cereal plant (3)