Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Hard and fast going round tunnel (5) 5 Casual trousers, almost loose (5) 9 Favourite dog, say (3) 10 Reversible blade hub (5) 11 Roam around after a smell (5) 12 Time of pageantry (3) 13 Study of cadences (3) 14 Vessel for gullible person (3) 16 Partner’s painting (3) 18 Policeman in his element? (6) 21 School initially went ahead with winter transport (4) 23 Curse out of loathing (4) 26 Cricket team’s legs (6) 29 Sign from galleon (3)

31 Is more than one? (3) 32 Gun-wielding animal (3) 34 Barrel tax (3) 36 Auctions small beers (5) 37 Live like a headless chauvinist (5) 38 Fewer around livestock (3) 39 Rinse out warning device (5) 40 Arranges into kinds (5)

DOWN

1 Passed broken tools (6) 2 Present during the recording (4) 3 Expert has not returned straight away (2,4) 4 Walk pram over first time (5) 5 Gets a new place to act (5) 6 Wooden record (3) 7 Part of

Far East (4) 8 Superman’s county? (4) 15 Superior shoe part (5) 17 Rubbish in grotto (3) 19 Some poetry from Roderick (3) 20 About to have nothing but eggs (3) 22 Don’t stand for untruth (3) 24 Viewpoint right for sportsman (6) 25 Accommodates husband and old applications (6) 27 City can produce language (5) 28 Doctors with small underwear (5) 29 Lost out a great deal (4) 30 Finished six deliveries (4) 33 Went off creature (4) 35 Terminate taxes internally (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Handle (5) 5 Careless (5) 9 Domestic animal (3) 10 Helicopter part (5) 11 Scent (5)

12 Era (3)

13 Lair (3)

14 Large cup (3) 16 Craft (3)

18 Metal (6) 21 Sleigh (4)

23 Vow (4) 26 Number (6) 29 Zodiac Lion (3) 31 Plural of is (3) 32 Wildebeest (3) 34 Keg (3) 36 Transactions (5) 37 Be (5) 38 Female sheep (3) 39 Temptress (5) 40 Types (5)

DOWN

1 Card suit (6)

2 In this place (4) 3 Immediately (2,4) 4 Vagrant (5) 5 Performing area (5) 6 Caber (3) 7 Region (4) 8 Garden of England? (4) 15 Top (5)

17 Decay (3) 19 Verse (3) 20 Caviar (3)

22 Fib (3) 24 Fisherman (6) 25 Dwellings (6) 27 Dead language (5) 28 Undergarments (5) 29 Many (4) 30 Above (4) 33 Amphibian (4) 35 Hatchet (3)