Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Move into underwear (5) 5 America has time for employment (5) 9 Tin from Tuscany (3) 10 Sovereign for stationery item (5) 11 Search for a weapon (5) 12 Whip pet (3) 13 Talented with a drink (3) 14 Faced with expert (3) 16 Sylvester is briefly crafty (3) 18 Engineers flag and cease work (6) 21 Pleased with simplicity (4) 23 Tax on small barrels (4) 26 Key, say, to storage unit (6) 29 For every experience has it (3) 31 Prohibit British article (3) 32 Concurred with dog (3) 34 Verse from Roderick (3) 36 Remove a seer forcibly (5) 37 Glue to fix a step (5) 38 Study of cadences (3) 39 Reportedly noticed setting (5) 40 Origins of Wimbledon favourites (5)
DOWN
1 Wild capers produce tricky situation (6) 2 Greet the weather (4) 3 Concludes fern is damaged (6) 4 Handle a nice surprise (5) 5 Cruel sort of complaint (5) 6 Lose argument about the Baltic, say (3) 7 New star of painting and music (4)
8 Coven vying with deadly sin (4) 15 About Arctic disintegration losing time (5) 17 A great deal of flotsam (3) 19 Swimmer feeling around (3) 20 Level with
first woman (3) 22 Wonder
in drawer (3) 24 First character raced around some shops (6) 25 Rinses out warning devices (6) 27 Round bees, terribly fat (5) 28 Keen to run
small joints (5) 29 Don’t answer,
just overtake (4) 30 Groped around for fastening (4) 33 Employed American journalist (4) 35 Man upset nowadays by North (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Transport (5) 5 Consumption (5) 9 Container (3) 10 Monarch (5) 11 Firearm (5) 12 Feline mammal (3) 13 Beer (3) 14 Playing card (3) 16 Cunning (3) 18 Stop working (6) 21 Relax (4) 23 Kegs (4) 26 Cubicle (6) 29 For every (3) 31 Block (3) 32 Mongrel (3) 34 Poem (3) 36 Rub out (5) 37 Fake jewellery (5) 38 Lair (3) 39 Play section (5) 40 Plant ovules (5)
DOWN
1 Abrade (6) 2 Frozen rain (4) 3 Deduces (6) 4 Deal with (5) 5 Painful affliction (5) 6 Body of water (3) 7 Crafts (4) 8 Covetousness (4) 15 Approximately (5) 17 Auction item (3) 19 Long fish (3) 20 Previous day (3) 22 Amazement (3) 24 Shopping street (6) 25 Temptresses (6) 27 Overweight (5) 28 Leg joints (5) 29 Elapse (4) 30 Cord (4) 33 Second-hand (4) 35 Judo grade (3)