Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Quiet at back of tunnel (5) 5 Land is small nuisance (5) 9 Label a game (3) 10 Three become solvent (5) 11 Panic that wakes you up (5) 12 Wanting to include tiny creature (3) 13 Kitty is a dish (3) 14 Father may explode (3) 16 Ready for collection (3) 18 Escaped to form a union (6) 21 Language in another sentence (4) 23 Work into soup recipe (4) 26 Look at overgrown garden (6) 29 Appearing to have food (3) 31 Sign from galleon (3)
32 The golfer’s conceit (3) 34 Father left as a friend (3) 36 Cracked code with right ornamentation (5) 37 Throw away support (5) 38 Fired with fury (3) 39 Woman has space to finish (5) 40 Relaxed and stopped, not having started (5)
DOWN
1 Principal design for plates (6) 2 Laugh about a large ring (4) 3 A stage constructed of stones (6) 4 Time for some music (5) 5 Form new heaps (5) 6 Swan enclosure (3) 7 New star of painting and music (4) 8 Following from main exterior (4) 15 Suggest old tree (5) 17 Bemused with creature (3) 19 Member of whole group (3) 20 Animal gives party energy (3) 22 About to have nothing but eggs (3) 24 Outline is almost exact (6) 25 Sorted out and packed (6) 27 Everyone at home is very tired (3,2) 28 Venetian prince has daughter to avoid (5) 29 Don’t answer, just overtake (4) 30 Collapsed around part of church (4) 33 Note blood group, regarding blood (4) 35 Talented with a drink (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Handle (5) 5 European country (5) 9 Sticker (3) 10 Flammable liquid (5) 11 Sudden terror (5) 12 Insect (3) 13 Cooking vessel (3) 14 Burst (3) 16 Solidify (3)
18 Ran off to wed (6) 21 Gaelic (4)
23 Work of art (4) 26 Male goose (6) 29 Vegetable (3) 31 Zodiac Lion (3) 32 Self-image (3) 34 Chum (3) 36 Furnishings (5) 37 Catapult (5) 38 Wrath (3) 39 Lustre (5) 40 Loosened (5)
DOWN
1 Metal fastener (6) 2 Ring of light (4) 3 Banded minerals (6) 4 Musical speed (5) 5 Figure (5)
6 Biro (3)
7 Crafts (4) 8 Subsequent (4) 15 Utter a view (5) 17 Flightless bird (3) 19 Limb (3) 20 Female deer (3) 22 Caviar (3) 24 Summary (6) 25 Stowed (6) 27 Exhausted (3,2) 28 Evade (5) 29 Elapse (4) 30 Church recess (4) 33 Bloodshed (4) 35 Beer (3)