Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Must adjust pressure to confound (5) 5 Saddled with school food (5) 9 Hitting with can (3) 10 Reversible blade? (5) 11 Animated a veil badly (5) 12 Shade of credibility (3) 13 Allow to hire (3) 14 Betting on a spring (3) 16 Run off to get a receptacle (3) 18 Easy to work with ship compositions (6) 21 Team dies away (4) 23 One’s ruined for ages (4) 26 Composer sounds more correct (6) 29 Member of whole group (3) 31 Faced with expert (3) 32 Wonder in drawer (3) 34 He’s on the staff (3) 36 Criticise the Spanish jury (5) 37 Foreign order to air question one (5) 38 Part of angel is set (3) 39 Equestrian clause (5) 40 Actions in documents (5)
DOWN
1 Stands and delays (6) 2 Until eventually getting slate (4) 3 Joined the team (6) 4 Reporters insist (5) 5 Small dish for a cat (5) 6 One’s lowest digit? (3) 7 Our Duncan’s tongue (4) 8 Family has large oven (4) 15 Deity in charge of terror (5) 17 Rushed out of France (3) 19 Use a needle like this, say (3) 20 Regard for diocese (3) 22 Fired with wrath (3) 24 Colour of zero scope (6) 25 Arranges letters for durations (6) 27 Navigation aid that looks both ways? (5) 28 Indifferent to pressure in new diet (5) 29 Left tune at home (4) 30 Network key, free (4) 33 Plant gets a drip (4) 35 Bored with raw material (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Tree base (5) 5 Fastened (5) 9 Metal (3) 10 Helicopter hub (5) 11 Living (5) 12 Colour (3) 13 Rent out (3) 14 Resort (3) 16 Vase (3) 18 Treatises (6) 21 Edge (4) 23 Eras (4) 26 Author (6) 29 Limb (3) 31 Playing card (3) 32 Amazement (3) 34 Stick (3) 36 Board (5) 37 M Eastern (5) 38 Solidify (3) 39 Horseman (5) 40 Actions (5)
DOWN
1 Market booths (6) 2 Mosaic piece (4) 3 Merged (6) 4 Squeeze (5) 5 Err (5) 6 Foot part (3) 7 Asian language (4) 8 Oven (4) 15 Sudden alarm (5) 17 Sprinted (3) 19 Darn (3) 20 Notice (3) 22 Anger (3) 24 Fruit (6) 25 Magic formulas (6) 27 Echolocation (5) 28 Lukewarm (5) 29 Den (4) 30 Graph (4) 33 Dandelion, eg (4) 35 Mineral (3)