Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Move into
underwear (5)
5 Inclination to have new salt thrown out (5)
9 Tin from Tuscany (3)
10 Cruel sort of
complaint (5)
11 Change later,
perhaps (5)
12 Grain of loathing (3)
13 About to have nothing but caviar (3)
14 Emotional about
particle (3)
16 Voice, for
example (3)
18 Tenner spent on
cheese ingredient (6)
21 Bird in other nest (4)
23 Conceal skin (4)
26 Behold one’s new
release (6)
29 Appearing to have
food (3)
31 Wanting to include
creature (3)
32 Ready for
collection (3)
34 Talk of argon, say (3)
36 Remark to a team (5)
37 Be a chauvinist, but
not initially (5)
38 Study of
cadences (3)
39 Mislays soles,
sadly (5)
40 It happened in the
Seventies (5)
DOWN
1 Mark, at church, is seldom seen (6) 2 Harold only has to ring (4)
3 Lock up one by one,
say (6)
4 Spin round one
province (5)
5 Small ice cream and
cake (5)
6 Field of pleasure (3)
7 New tsar of painting
and music (4)
8 Strayed around
dish (4)
15 Tearjerker set in
kitchen (5)
17 Join a religious
man (3) 19 Point to the Spanish
swimmer (3)
20 Definitely an
article (3)
22 Very excited about
whisky (3)
24 Imprisoned
fashionable team (6)
25 Range of former
shelter (6)
27 Haven for band (5)
28 Declare condition (5)
29 Colourless-sounding
container (4)
30 Sage cultivated for a
long time (4)
33 Need to transform
the garden (4)
35 Taxes have to
terminate (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Displace (5)
5 Slope (5)
9 Container (3)
10 Painful affliction (5)
11 Transform (5)
12 Type of grass (3)
13 Fish eggs (3)
14 Charged particle (3)
16 Declare (3)
18 Curdling agent (6)
21 Sea eagle (4)
23 Secrete (4)
26 Relax (6)
29 Vegetable (3)
31 Insect (3)
32 Solidify (3)
34 Type of element (3)
36 Stage whisper (5)
37 Live (5)
38 Lair (3)
39 Gets beaten (5)
40 Occurrence (5)
DOWN
1 Insufficient (6)
2 Divine aura (4)
3 Incarcerate (6)
4 Italian city (5)
5 High tea treat (5)
6 Meadow (3)
7 Crafts (4)
8 Salver (4)
15 Edible bulb (5)
17 Append (3)
19 Slippery fish (3)
20 Common word (3)
22 Grain (3)
24 Within (6)
25 Scope (6)
27 Desert’s fertile patch (5)
28 Assert (5)
29 Bucket (4)
30 Eras (4)
33 Paradise (4)
35 Hatchet (3)