Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Second lyre is out of
tune (5)
5 Terribly eager to
concur (5)
9 Greek character has
German swine (3)
10 Drove to see old
show (5)
11 Hid a hotel round
part of USA (5)
12 Falling over
everything (3)
13 Catch in one trap (3) 14 Liked chap’s name,
so they say (3)
16 Secular bet (3)
18 Festival involving a
steer (6)
21 Cricket match can be
a trial (4)
23 Oven provides breakfast bread without topping (4) 26 Hockey team’s
legs (6)
29 Marched round
bend (3)
31 Sounds like Romeo
is? (3)
32 Vase to get by merit,
we hear (3)
34 Allow to hire (3)
36 Batman’s bird? (5) 37 Sign from afar, i.e.
signal (5)
38 Juicer contains
something cold (3) 39 Panes smashed by
tree (5)
40 Relieved by
cultivating a seed (5)
DOWN
1 Step in to play
instrument (6)
2 Conceal pelt (4)
3 An entrance with
small stones (6)
4 Nudges quietly with
sticks (5)
5 Proverb from Lovelace and Georgia (5)
6 Set broken leg (3)
7 Strolling to get some
bread (4)
8 Notice eastern
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
agent (4) 15 Total state (5)
17 Animal in glasses (3) 1 Acute (5) 19 Consumed more 5 Tally (5)
than seven, say (3) 9 Boar (3) 20 About to have 10 Riding display (5) nothing but eggs (3)
11 American state (5) 22 Hearsay about sense 12 Everyone (3) for music (3)
13 Mesh (3) 24 Deity travelling in a
14 Delved (3) bus (6)
16 Put down (3) 25 Preserved dent in formation (6) 18 End of Lent (6)
21 Examine (4) 27 City can provide language (5) 23 Kiln (4)
26 Number (6) 28 Conversed about
stanza (5) 29 Curve (3) 29 A really reduced 31 Plural ‘to be’? (3)
sector (4) 32 Vase (3) 30 Encourage around 34 Permit (3)
course (4) 36 Redbreast (5) 33 Eric prepared some 37 Zodiac ram (5)
food (4) 38 Frozen water (3) 35 Previously used in 39 Poplar (5)
poetry? (3) 40 Relaxed (5)
DOWN
1 Type of
harpsichord (6)
2 Secrete (4)
3 Banded gems (6)
4 Pokes (5)
5 Maxim (5)
6 Solidify (3)
7 Tumble (4)
8 Catch sight of (4) 15 Voice (5)
17 Donkey (3)
19 Devoured (3)
20 Small deer (3)
22 Listening organ (3) 24 Egyptian god (6) 25 Canned (6)
27 Roman tongue (5) 28 Stanza (5)
29 Region (4)
30 Applaud (4)
33 Cereal crop (4)
35 Before (3)