Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Reduces pieces of meat (5) 5 Lift gets more money (5) 9 Tear out of Tripoli (3) 10 Sluggish at interchange (5) 11 The victor has to expel (5) 12 Faced with expert (3) 13 Study of cadences (3) 14 Rendition’s conclusion (3) 16 Might have 31 days (3) 18 Points, for example, to small dissertations (6) 21 Cricket match can be a trial (4) 23 Changes as to fodder (4) 26 Longs to give time to Poles (6) 29 Second person to sound like a sheep (3) 31 Talented with drink (3) 32 Started with sailor (3) 34 Bragged about scrap (3) 36 Entertain a source of inspiration (5) 37 Selfish desire tallied, but not initially (5) 38 Draw first turn, that is (3) 39 The woman finds queen transparent (5) 40 We sat around hard work (5)
DOWN
1 Belief in borrowing facility (6) 2 I have to follow husband home (4) 3 Mentions old trees (6) 4 Venues of spectacles, say (5) 5 Willing to be organised (5) 6 Marched around bend (3) 7 Time to move something (4) 8 Notice eastern agent (4) 15 Place of birth (5) 17 Captain has fitting (3) 19 Remain without a pen (3) 20 Boy of resonance (3) 22 The golfer’s conceit (3) 24 Clever statue design (6) 25 Small oak, say, at junction in road (6) 27 Keen to agree to change (5) 28 Scans and dares to run (5) 29 May return small vegetables (4) 30 Surgeon’s desire (4) 33 When I get a lot of land (4) 35 Is more than one? (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Hacks (5) 5 Elevate (5) 9 Lacerate (3) 10 Unreactive (5) 11 Throw out (5) 12 Playing card (3) 13 Lair (3) 14 Finish (3) 16 Month (3) 18 Treatises (6) 21 Examine (4) 23 Grain (4) 26 Aches (6) 29 Pronoun (3) 31 Beer (3) 32 Pitch (3) 34 Duster (3) 36 Regale (5) 37 Avarice (5) 38 Bind (3) 39 Precipitous (5) 40 Perspire (5)
DOWN
1 Acclaim (6) 2 Bees’ structure (4) 3 Gives a view (6) 4 Locations (5) 5 Prepared (5) 6 Curve (3) 7 Unit (4) 8 Catch sight of (4) 15 Relating to birth (5) 17 Suitable (3) 19 Pigpen (3) 20 Child (3) 22 Self-image (3) 24 Perceptive (6) 25 Road (6) 27 Avid (5) 28 Peruses (5) 29 Sweet potatoes (4) 30 Encourage (4) 33 Largest continent (4) 35 Plural of is (3)
Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror