Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 Driver is damp circling hill (8)
9 Order of Merit, for example, given to a foreign character (5)
10 Ate, swallowing last of meal, and took off (4)
11 We’re told to change sacred table (5)
12 Mr Simpson’s unfinished dwelling (4)
13 Fiendish type lived improperly (5)
14 Wake up and call by (4, 5)
16 Encourage revolutionary to go before queen (5)
17 Second tour made by band (5)
22 The solution is shock treatment (9)
24 MP William is in Dutch city? (5)
26 Head of maize I will grind (4)
27 Firearm disturbed flier (5) 28 Feline heard in golf course (4)
29 Attack where shooting takes place? (5)
30 I’m sitting for an artist — that’s impressive (8)
DOWN
1 Underground worker’s dog has ringworm at first (7)
2 Unfriendly individual serving crucial ingredient of salmon salad? (4, 4)
3 Legendary ruler mistreated maids (5)
4 Kings Cross, perhaps, is where the police are based (7)
5 Get into royal society and start to eat zucchini (9)
6 It might be heard in a disco and college? No (6)
7 I’m turning up in funny jeans, yellow in colour (7)
15 Some housewives on TV are like Dan the cowboy (9)
18 Quickly hail fans on the rampage (2,1,5)
19 Who might have picked up rubbish after New Year’s Day? (7)
20 Spring month bazaar in part of London (7)
21 Organising athletics event (7)
23 Delight in cultivated shire about lake (6)
25 We hear famous diarist takes a furtive glance (5)
Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
8 One behind the wheel (8)
9 Last Greek letter (5)
10 Scarpered (4)
11 Sacrificial surface (5)
12 — Office, government department (4)
13 Satan (5)
14 Regain consciousness (4, 5)
16 Shout in support (5)
17 Football team’s attire (5)
22 Film musical with John Travolta as Edna Turnblad (9)
24 The —, seat of the Netherlands government (5)
26 Flour factory (4)
27 Rummage (5)
28 Wild cat with tufted black ears (4)
29 Beginning, start (5)
30 Grand, intimidating (8)
DOWN
1 Miner (7)
2 Unemotional type (4, 4)
3 — touch, ability to make money (5)
4 Stopping place for trains (7)
5 Small marrow (9)
6 Electronic dance music (6)
7 Flower used for making perfume and flavouring tea (7)
15 Hopeless (9)
18 Before you can say Jack Robinson! (2,1,5)
19 Caretaker (7)
20 Monopoly’s most expensive property (7)
21 Switched on, functioning (7)
23 Savour to the full (6)
25 Chick’s high-pitched sounds (5)
Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record