Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
Push for second search (5) Utensil is part of suit (5)
Tin from
Tuscany (3) Surpass a large size, say (5) Strange to send a line (5) Honest about quantity (3) A great deal of flotsam (3) Child of resonance (3) Voice, for example (3) Cricket team’s legs (6)
Team dies away (4)
23 Peer in
real trouble (4)
26 Sensitive
offer (6)
29 That woman’s in the right (3) Sign from galleon (3)
32 More polite
with salesman (3)
34 Refusal to
include land (1,1,1)
36 Stages for performing pests (5) Simpleton caught inside hill (5)
38 Regard for
diocese (3)
39 Ted’s worried about European mount (5)
40 Reportedly seen and positioned (5) 1 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 21 31 37
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Climbs to get fishy plates (6) Laugh about a large ring (4) Joined the team (6) Nervous part of speech (5)
Small ice cream or cake (5)
Swan enclosure (3) Organise sale of drinks (4)
Notice eastern agent (4)
Sheepish round wine producer (5) Fairy’s manner (3)
Permit to hire (3)
20 Originally called in one engineer (3)
22 Juicer contains something cold (3)
24 Stop and
apprehend (6)
25 Declined new pleas, on the day (6)
27 European
country animal (5)
28 Does order small correct servings (5)
29 Jeer at that
man’s son (4)
30 Prudence gets
discourteous (4)
33 Weapon gets
record points (4)
35 Prosecute
a woman (3) 8 15 17 19
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
Shove (5) Weighing device (6) Garden Saintly glow (4) implement (5) Merged (6)
9 Container (3) Anxious (5)
10 Outstrip (5) Afternoon tea
11 Extraterrestrial (5) treat (5)
12 Single (3) 6 Biro (3)
13 Auction item (3) 7 Beers (4)
14 Boy (3) 8 Catch sight of (4)
16 Declare (3) 15 Sheep-like (5)
18 Number (6) 17 Atmosphere (3)
21 Edge (4) 19 Allow (3)
23 Aristocrat (4) 20 Born as (3)
26 Sore (6) 22 Frozen water (3)
29 Pronoun (3) 24 Take into custody (6) 31 Zodiac Lion (3) 25 No longer valid (6) 32 Agent (3) 27 Antelope (5)
34 America (1,1,1) 28 Amounts of
36 Stairs (5) medicine (5)
37 Fool (5) 29 Snake’s sound (4)
38 Notice (3) 30 Impolite (4)
39 War-horse (5) 33 Fencing sword (4) 40 Located (5) 35 Take to court (3) Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror 1 5
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