Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Gets a new place to
perform (5)
5 Isolated a section (5) 9 Prude loses right
mammal (3)
10 Expand women’s
group study (5)
11 Picture one game
differently (5)
12 Wonder in drawer (3)
13 Catch in one trap (3) 14 Bragged about
scrap (3)
16 Lacking colour in
Swansea (3)
18 Festival involving a
steer (6)
21 Cricket match can be
a trial (4)
23 May go back to school for something to eat (4)
26 Stationery item takes ages reaching queen (6)
29 Napoleon’s lion (3) 31 Roused about
employment (3)
32 About to have nothing but caviar (3)
34 No-one sounds as
pious as her (3)
36 A vine turned
green (5)
37 Credit note on ship
for food (5)
38 Beastly medic (3)
39 Youngsters sent
away with energy (5) 40 Paradoxical
odds? (5)
DOWN
1 Instep damaged by old instrument (6) 2 Item moving in fourth dimension (4) 3 A portal has small
stones (6)
4 We’re off to get small
jugs (5)
5 Nowadays have time
for proverb (5)
6 Hope woman has
somewhere to sit (3) 7 A novel once
more (4)
8 Meagre sort of
hint (4)
15 Finally doesn’t finish
book (5) 17 I’m a moving
target (3)
19 Consumed less than
nine, say (3)
20 Very excited about
whisky (3)
22 Level with first
woman (3)
24 Reach a river,
somehow (6)
25 Desserts are sugary
at school (6)
27 Nurse translates
characters (5)
28 Feeling that may be
common (5)
29 Tool used to
plunder (4)
30 Formerly in
concert (4)
33 Hot place in
Coventry (4)
35 Run off to get
receptacle (3)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Performing area (5) 5 Separated (5)
9 Farm animal (3)
10 Broaden (5)
11 Likeness (5)
12 Amazement (3)
13 Mesh (3)
14 Duster (3)
16 Pale (3)
18 Religious holiday (6)
21 Examine (4)
23 Sweet potatoes (4) 26 Rubber (6)
29 Zodiac sign (3)
31 Utilise (3)
32 Fish eggs (3)
34 Devout woman (3) 36 Inexperienced (5) 37 Salad plant (5)
38 Animal doctor (3) 39 Adolescents (5)
40 50-50 chances (5)
DOWN
1 Type of harpsichord (6)
2 Occasion (4)
3 Banded quartzes (6) 4 Pitchers (5)
5 Maxim (5)
6 Church seat (3)
7 Again (4)
8 Slender (4)
15 Map collection (5) 17 Goal (3)
19 Devoured (3)
20 Grain (3)
22 Previous day (3)
24 Turn up (6)
25 Confectionary (6) 27 Ancient symbols (5) 28 Faculty (5)
29 Money (4)
30 On one occasion (4) 33 Kiln (4)
35 Vase (3)