Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Locks small shacks (5) 5 Deity in charge of alarm (5) 9 Tin from Tuscany (3) 10 Chosen the Spanish tie design (5) 11 Strange to send a line (5) 12 Use a needle like this, say (3) 3 Permit to hire (3) 14 Besotted with drinker (3) 16 Definitely an article (3) 18 Cricket team’s legs (6) 21 Thus get attorney drink (4) 23 Employed American journalist (4) 26 Mean to study broken toe (6) 29 Energy savings scheme (3) 31 Flowers in sleigh (3) 32 GP brought back fish (3) 34 He’s on the staff (3) 36 Permission to go (5) 37 Round bees, terribly fat (5) 38 Healthy colour in Istanbul (3) 39 A large red sort of shrub (5) 40 Lived to have drunken, lewd time (5)

DOWN

1 Climbs to get fishy plates (6) 2 Healthy in cold weather, say (4) 3 Joined the team (6) 4 Feeling that may be common! (5) 5 I step out onto slope (5) 6 Devoured more than seven, say (3) 7 Went off creature (4) 8 Appealing to cut energy (4) 15 Sheepish round wine producer (5) 17 Huge without third colour (3) 19 Gladstone’s son (3) 20 Enthusiast from Brazil, say (3) 22 Verse from Roderick (3) 24 Seated, awfully tranquil (6) 25 Proper to put notes with coin (6) 27 First-born tribal leader (5) 28 Do lie about being greased (5) 29 Father, with hesitation, gets cat (4) 30 Jab quietly with stick (4) 33 The shape of cricket in London? (4) 35 Nobel’s prize (1,1,1)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Closes (5) 5 Sudden terror (5) 9 Container (3) 10 Exclusive (5) 11 Extraterrestrial (5) 12 Darn (3) 13 Allow (3) 14 Drunkard (3) 16 Common word (3) 18 Number (6) 21 Sparkling water (4) 23 Second-hand (4) 26 Designate (6) 29 Vigour (3) 31 Garland (3) 32 Medic (3) 34 Stick (3) 36 Depart (5) 37 Overweight (5) 38 Brown (3) 39 Type of tree (5) 40 Inhabited (5)

DOWN

1 Weighing device (6) 2 Hearty (4) 3 Merged (6) 4 Smell or taste? (5) 5 Ski run (5) 6 Consumed (3) 7 Amphibian (4) 8 Lovely (4) 15 Sheep-like (5) 17 Shade (3) 19 Boy (3) 20 Kernel (3) 22 Poem (3) 24 Calm (6) 25 Seemly (6) 27 Church official (5) 28 Lubricated (5) 29 Cougar (4) 30 Poke (4) 33 Ellipse (4) 35 Award (1,1,1)