Two-speed coffeebreak CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
ACROSS
1 Collect a great
deal (5) 5 Stones for old
friends (5) 9 Mother and daughter
are insane (3) 10 Sing to a new
being (5) 11 Talk at zero
speed (5) 12 Fewer round
animal (3) 13 More polite with
agent (3) 14 Encourage farm
produce (3) 16 Lacking colour in
Swansea (3) 18 Unusual dearth of
yarn (6) 21 Mislay sole
arrangement (4) 23 Some distance from
the garden (4) 26 Never lost school
stress (6) 29 Exclude from pub (3) 31 Originally called in
one engineer (3) 32 Sticking with
twitch (3) 34 Grain of loathing (3) 36 Avoid carrying out duel with energy (5) 37 Small fruit used as weapon (5) 38 Great deal of stone (3) 39 Guide bullock (5) 40 Arranged letters for school to hide (5)
DOWN
1 A lesson is unethical (6) 2 Bad dream from grim area (4) 3 Adjusts, nowadays, to wicked past (6) 4 Woman finds queen transparent (5) 5 Foreign character only playing game (5) 6 Stop a woman with a hand (3) 7 A novel once more (4) 8 Turn pins round (4) 15 Kind of green variety (5) 17 Fairy’s tune (3) 19 Bird from
Shenfield (3) 20 Colour to fade, we
hear (3) 22 Removal includes
cells (3) 24 Cunning statue
design (6) 25 Proper to put notes
with coin (6) 27 Come in from barren terrain (5) 28 Ever-changing small
swerves (5) 29 Chief sobs
uncontrollably (4) 30 Got up like a
flower (4) 33 Lazy-sounding
hero (4) 35 Copy from tapestry (3)
ACROSS
1 Assemble (5) 5 Gemstones (5) 9 Crazy (3) 10 Mortal (5) 11 Speak in public (5) 12 Female sheep (3) 13 Salesman (3) 14 Easter treat? (3) 16 Pale (3)
18 Sewing material (6) 21 Get beaten (4) 23 Unit of length (4) 26 Anxiety (6) 29 Ingot (3) 31 Born (3) 32 Spasm (3) 34 Type of grass (3) 36 Evade (5) 37 Javelin (5) 38 Weight (3) 39 Navigate (5) 40 Written out (5)
DOWN
1 Unprincipled (6) 2 Female horse (4) 3 Changes (6) 4 Precipitous (5) 5 Greek letter (5) 6 Manhandle, grab (3) 7 Again (4) 8 Rotate (4) 15 Type (5) 17 Manner (3) 19 Domestic fowl (3) 20 Pigment (3) 22 Gametes (3) 24 Perceptive (6) 25 Seemly (6) 27 Go in (5) 28 Alters direction (5) 29 Head (4) 30 Stood (4) 33 Object of worship (4) 35 Primate (3)