TWO SPEED COFFEEBREAK

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.

ACROSS

1 Hard and fast going round tunnel (5) Casual trousers,

almost loose (5) 9 Favourite dog,

say (3) 10 Reversible

blade hub (5) 11 Roam around

after a smell (5) 12 Time of

pageantry (3) 13 Study

of cadences (3) 14 Vessel for gullible person (3) 16 Partner’s

painting (3) 18 Policeman in

his element? (6) 21 School initially went ahead with winter transport (4)

23 Curse out

of loathing (4)

26 Cricket

team’s legs (6)

29 Sign from

galleon (3) 31 Is more

than one? (3)

32 Gun-wielding

animal (3)

34 Barrel tax (3)

36 Auctions

small beers (5)

37 Live like a headless chauvinist (5)

38 Fewer around

livestock (3)

39 Rinse out

warning device (5) 40 Arranges

into kinds (5)

DOWN

1 Passed broken

tools (6) 2 Present during

the recording (4) 3 Expert has not returned straight away (2,4) 4 Walk pram

over first time (5) Gets a new

place to act (5) 6 Wooden

record (3) 7 Part of

Far East (4) 8 Superman’s

county? (4) Superior

shoe part (5) 17 Rubbish

in grotto (3) 19 Some poetry

from Roderick (3) 20 About to have nothing but eggs (3)

22 Don’t stand

for untruth (3)

24 Viewpoint right

for sportsman (6) Accommodates husband and old applications (6) 27 City can produce

language (5)

28 Doctors with small underwear (5)

29 Lost out a

great deal (4)

30 Finished six

deliveries (4)

33 Went off

creature (4) Terminate taxes

internally (3)

ACROSS

1 Handle (5) Careless (5) 9 Domestic animal (3) 10 Helicopter part (5) 11 Scent (5) 12 Era (3) 13 Lair (3) 14 Large cup (3) 16 Craft (3) 18 Metal (6) 21 Sleigh (4) 23 Vow (4) 26 Number (6) 29 Zodiac Lion (3) 31 Plural of is (3) 32 Wildebeest (3) 34 Keg (3) 36 Transactions (5) 37 Be (5) 38 Female sheep (3) 39 Temptress (5) 40 Types (5)

DOWN

1 Card suit (6) 2 In this place (4) 3 Immediately (2,4) 4 Trudge heavily (5) Performing area (5) 6 Caber (3) 7 Region (4) 8 Garden of

England? (4) Top (5) 17 Decay (3) 19 Verse (3)

20 Caviar (3)

22 Fib (3)

24 Fisherman (6) Dwellings (6)

27 Dead language (5) 28 Undergarments (5) 29 Many (4)

30 Above (4)

33 Amphibian (4) Hatchet (3)