Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Second instrument is

out of tune (5)

5 Feel depressed

underneath (5)

9 Rubbish in

statistics (3)

10 Permission to go (5) 11 Roam around after a

scent (5)

12 Study of

cadences (3)

13 Quantity of

contents (3)

14 Go on at a horse (3) 16 Healthy colour in

Istanbul (3)

18 Sale is arranged in

corridors (6)

21 Recalled about

visit (4)

23 Jumps to get beer

ingredient (4)

26 Guy brings another

back home (6)

29 British artist in

underwear (3)

31 Originally called in

one engineer (3)

32 Midas’s girl (3)

34 Whip the pet (3)

36 Delve rigorously with

youngster (5)

37 Pace rated incorrectly (5) 38 Rendition’s conclusion (3) 39 Model’s terrible prose (5)

40 Arranges into kinds (5)

DOWN

1 Sluggish form of

electricity (6)

2 Hear about

animal (4)

3 Article not about a novice lacking harmony (6)

4 Alps improve with

new maps (5)

5 Mark five notes (5) 6 Level with first

woman (3)

7 Loaned fast (4)

8 Question the

time (4)

15 Beer gets no better

on one’s own (5)

17 Pam struggled in the

current (3)

19 Sort of silkiness (3) 20 The girl from

Esher (3)

22 Fairy’s tune (3)

24 Fruit right for a

chap (6)

25 Ship has solid bits (6) 27 Come in from barren

terrain (5)

28 New seed, new

demands (5)

29 Knock rear with

pressure (4)

30 Performs part of the

bible (4)

33 Study time of

damage (4)

35 Is more than one? (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Acute (5)

5 Under (5)

9 Shabby articles (3) 10 Depart (5)

11 Smell (5)

12 Lair (3)

13 Number (3)

14 Scold (3)

16 Brown (3)

18 Passageways (6)

21 Shout (4)

23 Skips (4)

26 Dog’s shelter (6)

29 Undergarment (3)

31 Born (3)

32 Mountain in Crete (3) 34 Feline (3)

36 Young eel (5)

37 Step (5)

38 Finish (3)

39 Sitter (5)

40 Types (5)

DOWN

1 Motionless (6)

2 Small mammal (4)

3 Without a key (6)

4 Schemes (5)

5 Emblem (5)

6 Previous day (3)

7 Period of

fasting (4)

8 Question word (4) 15 Unaccompanied (5)

17 Unit of current (3) 19 Kind (3)

20 Pronoun (3)

22 Manner (3)

24 Man’s name (6)

25 Fragments (6)

27 Go in (5)

28 Requires (5)

29 Swelling (4)

30 Behaves (4)

33 Hollow (4)

35 Plural of is (3)