Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues
ACROSS
1 Pushy people get promotion (4)
4 Lied about being lazy (4) 6 Land in terrible rain (4) 8 Shelter knight from vegetable (4)
11 Tuna-mad relation (4) 13 Sincere-sounding fellow (7) 14 Letters revealing debt (1,1,1) 16 Strength and pressure wore off (5)
18 Warts develop on the tube (5) 21 Danes designed seat (5)
22 Deer confused about one duck (5)
24 Marched around bend (3) 25 Note simple treatment for depressions (7)
28 Encourages farm produce (4) 30 Thus repeatedly average (2-2) 31 One editor’s requirement (4) 32 In France, you double the skirt (4)
33 Mix in prison (4)
DOWN
1 Healthy in cold weather, say (4)
2 Ripe design for wharf (4) 3 Understanding German file (5) 4 Spinning around pub (3)
5 Cure using shade (4)
7 Vehicles considered as out (5) 9 Festival involving a steer (6) 10 Work muddled dean with king (5)
12 Bound to change diet (4) 15 Speaks about a store (6)
17 You and I record small sobs (5)
19 Eric prepared some food (4) 20 Block wife reaching border (5)
23 Gone up to reset siren (5)
24 Help make a wager (4)
26 Tool exchanged for money (4) 27 Ours turned bitter (4) 29 Gun-wielding animal (3)
Quick clues ACROSS
1 Publicity (4) 4 Unoccupied (4) 6 Tehran’s country (4) 8 Welsh emblem (4) 11 Female relative (4) 13 Serious (7) 14 Promissory note (1,1,1)
16 Potency (5)
18 Dried grass (5)
21 Type of chair (5)
22 Variety of duck (5) 24 Curve (3)
25 Facial creases
when smiling (7)
28 Ova (4)
30 Middling (2-2)
31 Be in want of (4)
32 Ballet costume (4) 33 Move (4)
DOWN
1 Hearty (4)
2 Jetty (4)
3 Hold firmly (5) 4 Tavern (3)
5 Linen colour (4) 7 Cars (5)
9 End of Lent (6) 10 Squeeze dough (5) 12 Fastened (4)
15 Talks pompously (6)
17 Cries (5)
19 Cereal plant (4)
20 Triangular
segment (5)
23 Increased (5)
24 Aid in crime (4)
26 Plunder (4)
27 Resentful (4)
29 Wildebeest (3)