Two-speed coffeebreak

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 School head airs off dresses (5)

5 Roses developing inflammations (5) 9 In favour of compromise (3) 10 Stupid pub has a point (5) 11 Respond concerning performance (5) 12 Supporter of sport? (3) 13 Hearsay about bit of corn (3) 14 Timely end for city (3)

16 Permit to hire (3) 18 Safeguard space and get positive (6)

21 Bird at two parties (4)

23 Rage about

clothing (4)

26 Threesome with time on new moon (6)

29 Marched around bend (3)

31 Verse from Roderick (3)

32 End of

stipulation (3)

34 Room for

family dog? (3)

36 A vine turned green (5)

37 A sail used under another name (5)

38 Rushed out

of France (3)

39 Enemy forced

to land (5)

40 It happened in the

Seventies (5)

DOWN

1 Cast drapes apart (6)

2 Part of the

Far East (4) 3 Shouted about road bypass (6) 4 Locations of spectacles, say (5) 5 Minor deity threw trays (5)

6 Honest about quantity (3)

7 Dance film (4) 8 Teas brewed behind (4)

15 Left university free to be sensational (5) 17 Are back for a long time (3) 19 Hardly sending ton back (3)

20 The golfer’s

conceit (3)

22 Alternatively have

a paddle (3)

24 Complete space

with flag (6)

25 Regret giving agent ten orders (6)

27 Batman’s

bird? (5)

28 Nervous part

of speech (5)

29 Mary upset

the men (4)

30 Declamation

about seafood (4)

33 Terrible name

for a tsar (4)

35 Talented with

a drink (3)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Indian gowns (5)

5 Painful afflictions (5)

9 Expert (3)

10 Senseless (5)

11 Respond (5)

12 Golf peg (3)

13 Listening organ (3)

14 Cathedral city (3)

16 Allow (3)

18 Make certain (6)

21 Extinct creature (4)

23 Cog (4)

26 Moon of Neptune (6)

29 Curve (3)

31 Poem (3)

32 Gratuity (3)

34 Scientist’s room (3)

36 Inexperienced (5)

37 Assumed name (5)

38 Sprinted (3)

39 Middle Eastern country (5)

40 Occurrence (5)

DOWN

1 Scatter (6) 2 Region (4) 3 Bellowed (6) 4 Venues (5) 5 Woodland god (5)

6 Single (3)

7 Stagger (4)

8 Chair (4)

15 Graphic (5)

17 Period (3)

19 Negative (3)

20 Self-image (3)

22 Scull (3)

24 Whole (6)

25 Feel remorse (6)

27 Small bird (5)

28 Anxious (5)

29 Military force (4)

30 Bivalve

mollusc (4)

33 Russian name (4)

35 Beer (3)