Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Criticises, having left
designs (5) 5 Elegance of
students (5) 9 Brigade’s
equipment (3) 10 Sign loner up (5) 11 Journalist gets soldiers to improve (5) 12 Fewer round
animal (3) 13 Tin from Tuscany (3) 14 Pam struggled with guitarist’s accessory (3) 16 Voice, for
example (3) 18 Give professor wrong
tea (6) 21 Best arguments are
about celebrity (4) 23 Choose to veto,
perhaps (4) 26 Dealer having less
money? (6) 29 Proverbially busy
flier (3) 31 Bored with raw
material (3) 32 Boxer from
California (3) 34 Edict internally
flawed (3) 36 Place of birth (5) 37 Betting notes on
pace (5) 38 Honest about
quantity (3) 39 Guide bullock (5) 40 Dog resides with
monsters (5)
DOWN
1 Outline is almost exact (6) 2 Climate around capital (4) 3 Time and motion list (6) 4 Danes designed seat (5) 5 Moved about, terribly pert (5) 6 Clowns get depressed (3) 7 Organise sale of drinks (4) 8 Remain and support (4) 15 Roman-style mansion (5) 17 Perform in
Clacton (3) 19 Rob’s new sphere (3) 20 Level with first
woman (3) 22 Lowest digit? (3) 24 Rhetorician finds
gold by a hill (6) 25 Evicts former spouse
with terrible lies (6) 27 Argumentative
sportsman? (5) 28 Knowledge to perform style of fighting (5) 29 Crazy fliers (4) 30 Different in steel,
seriously (4) 33 Way out of planet (4) 35 Copy from
tapestry (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Schemes (5) 5 Group of pupils (5)
9 Gear (3) 10 Enlist (5)
11 Correct (5) 12 Female sheep (3)
13 Container (3) 14 Unit of current (3)
16 Declare (3) 18 Bequeath (6)
21 Sun (4) 23 Elect (4) 26 Agent (6) 29 Insect (3)
31 Mineral (3) 32 Man’s name (3) 34 Decree (3) 36 Relating to birth (5) 37 Velocity (5) 38 Number (3) 39 Navigate (5) 40 Fiends (5)
DOWN
1 Summary (6) 2 Peruvian city (4)
3 Schedule (6) 4 Type of chair (5) 5 Sneaked (5) 6 Inferior (3)
7 Beers (4) 8 Keep (4) 15 Large house (5)
17 Behave (3) 19 Globe (3) 20 Previous day (3) 22 Foot part (3) 24 Public speaker (6) 25 Banishes (6) 27 Oarsman (5) 28 Martial art (5) 29 Flying mammals (4) 30 Otherwise (4) 33 Country road (4) 35 Mimic (3)
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TWO-SPEED COFFEEBREAK 0903 659 6060 (80p/min) Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record