Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Form new heaps (5) 5 Survives final school (5) 9 Baby’s drink (3) 10 Respond concerning performance (5) 11 Change later, perhaps (5) 12 Appearing to have food (3) 13 Originally called in one engineer (3) 14 Verse from Roderick (3) 16 Facts in emergency (3) 18 Rules out coordinate, without doubt (6) 21 Devours a set recipe (4) 23 Need to rearrange garden (4) 26 Set tea out in the grounds (6) 29 Talk of argon, say (3) 31 Started smuggling sticky black stuff (3) 32 A great deal of flotsam (3) 34 Same level within department (3) 36 Break out during the rupture (5) 37 Moving near a venue (5) 38 Set broken leg (3) 39 Resume engineers’ novel (5) 40 Reportedly noticed setting (5)

DOWN

1 Man takes church position (6) 2 Gap sounds complete (4) 3 Declare at cricket match (6) 4 Horror doesn’t start to slip (5) 5 Students have to copy part of jacket (5) 6 Faced with expert (3) 7 Party animal (4) 8 Amaze by juggling nuts (4) 15 Greek character’s mouth (5) 17 Fewer around livestock (3) 19 Roused about employment (3) 20 The old time, nevertheless (3) 22 Silver on a stove (3) 24 Notes glue is affected in flood (6) 25 Irritate at the plant (6) 27 Must rewrite internal broadcast (5) 28 Zones in Far East (5) 29 Rage about clothing (4) 30 Betting on a new bridge (4) 33 Honest old writer (4) 35 Is more than one? (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS DOWN

1 Figure (5) 5 Endures (5) 9 Add up (3) 10 Answer (5) 11 Transform (5) 12 Vegetable (3) 13 Born (3) 14 Poem (3) 16 Information (3) 18 Firmly (6) 21 Consumes (4) 23 Paradise (4) 26 Landed property (6) 29 Type of element (3) 31 Road-making material (3) 32 Auction item (3) 34 Equal (3) 36 Explode (5) 37 Amphitheatre (5) 38 Solidify (3) 39 Renovate (5) 40 Play section (5) 1 Attitude (6) 2 Cavity (4) 3 Affirm (6) 4 Mistake (5) 5 Collar piece (5) 6 Playing card (3) 7 Male deer (4) 8 Astound (4) 15 River’s end (5) 17 Female sheep (3) 19 Utilise (3) 20 Still (3) 22 Ottoman ruler (3) 24 Downpour (6) 25 Stinging weed (6) 27 Scatter, spread (5) 28 Regions (5) 29 Cog (4) 30 Duration (4) 33 Unwrap (4) 35 Plural of is (3)