Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues
ACROSS
1 Pets turn out to be vermin (4) 4 Search for top stylist (4)
6 Idol among the Romans (4)
8 Cut in personnel (4)
11 Blessed with not as much (4) 13 New rake can provide
protein (7)
14 Started with sailor (3)
16 Room for taxi at home (5)
18 Daily essay (5)
21 Huge Elgar composition (5)
22 Spin around one Italian city (5) 24 For each experience has it (3) 25 Gold on a new vessel (7)
28 Change during meditation (4) 30 Fight in this party (4)
31 Aide made unusual
scheme (4)
32 Boy finds German tune (4)
33 When I get a lot of land (4)
DOWN
1 Select hand tool (4)
2 Wise errand to get prophet (4) 3 Souvenir of pure
licentiousness (5)
4 Produce island broadcast (3)
5 Tolerate animal (4)
7 Learn layout of the
kidneys (5)
9 Tell engineers different
tale (6)
10 Struggle to get iron into thin
layer (5)
12 Mix in prison (4)
15 A new goal, cultivating land (6) 17 Rings groups (5)
19 Peru turned out to be
uncontaminated (4)
20 Equipment I would find
unyielding (5)
23 Famous as a piece of
music? (5)
24 Don’t answer, just overtake (4) 26 Work into soup recipe (4)
27 A number from Marianne (4) 29 Enjoy archaeology (3)
Quick clues
ACROSS
1 Nuisance (4)
4 Hair tool (4)
6 Champion (4)
8 Ship’s company (4)
11 Fewer (4)
13 Hair protein (7)
14 Pitch (3)
16 Log house (5)
18 Writing material (5) 21 Immense (5)
22 Italian city (5)
24 For every (3)
25 Venetian boat (7)
28 Revise (4)
30 Practise boxing (4) 31 Notion (4)
32 Ditty (4)
33 Largest continent (4)
DOWN
1 Choose (4)
2 Clairvoyant (4)
3 Artefact (5)
4 Lettuce (3)
5 Ursine mammal (4)
7 Of the kidneys (5) 9 Narrate (6)
10 Biscuit (5)
12 Move (4)
15 African country (6)
17 Stripes (5)
19 Unsullied (4)
20 Stiff (5)
23 Observed (5)
24 Elapse (4)
26 Artistic work (4)
27 Operatic solo (4) 29 Delve (3)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror