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Two-speed coffeebrea­k

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

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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)

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