Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
Bird at two parties (4) Agreement sounds full (4) New face for restaurant (4) Made off with cheese (4) Complain at estate parking (4)
13 Widow owed rag in error (7)
14 One worked for long time (3)
16 Fight for what’s left (5)
18 Costume custom (5)
21 Consumed by school, say (5)
22 Understood diplomacy
around Italian (5)
24 You and I have
time to get soaked (3)
25 Mature enough to
need rip corrected (7)
28 Most employees
have to stop (4)
30 Dreadful sort of ride (4)
31 Change during meditation (4)
32 Blue feathers (4)
33 Attempt to hug part-timer (4) 1 4 6 8 11
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Action that works both ways (4)
Sketch a tie (4)
New scale for fasteners (5) For each experience has it (3) Won’t change address (4) Loud race developed into travesty (5)
Give professor wrong tea (6) Mother and soldier caught in enchantment (5) Answer found in favourite fuel (4)
15 Cricketer useful in kitchen (6)
17 Evaluated tread badly (5)
19 Crazy flyers (4)
20 Tried working, exhausted (5)
23 Chap I would find shy (5)
24 Furious wife flipped lid (4)
26 Pleasant French resort (4)
27 Intense in the sea (4)
29 Number of contents (3)
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Quick clues ACROSS
Extinct creature (4) Document (4) Alliance (4) Pull (4)
Bistro (4) Shoe cords (5) Dutch dairy For every (3) product (4) Urban area (4) Freshwater fish (4) Fiasco (5) Bereaved Bequeath (6) noblewoman (7) Sorcery (5)
14 Era (3) Bog matter (4)
16 Shred (5) First batsman (6)
18 Routine (5) Assessed (5)
21 Dined (5) Halloween
22 Implied (5) mammals? (4) 24 Moist (3) 20 Weary (5)
25 Ready to eat (7) 23 Easily
28 Stalk (4) frightened (5)
30 Awful (4) 24 Untamed (4)
31 Revise (4) 26 Agreeable (4)
32 Depressed (4) 27 Profound (4)
33 Office worker (4) 29 Decimal base (3) Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror 1 4 6 8
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