Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Seals in small shacks (5)
5 Hard to love dilapidated pigsty (5)
9 Tin from Tuscany (3)
10 Business rated incorrectly (5)
11 Fruit that’s round, as it happens (5)
12 Catch in one trap (3)
13 Hardly returning ton (3)
14 Some colour about desktop (3)
16 Voice, for example (3)
18 Serious-sounding fellow (6)
21 Flank dies away (4)
23 Bit of lethal force (4)
26 Quiet journeys by families of cats (6)
29 Each experience has it (3)
31 That woman’s in the right (3)
32 In favour of compromise (3)
34 A turn previously (3)
36 Strange to send a line (5)
37 Five get omen about poison (5)
38 Rodent in crate (3)
39 Reportedly spotted setting (5)
40 A bad scare for the shrubs (5)
DOWN
1 Cakes or small ice creams (6)
2 Harold only gets saintly sign (4)
3 Joined a team (6)
4 Severe at the back (5)
5 Delivers manual workers (5)
6 Some poetry from Roderick (3)
7 Have tsetse flies surrounded animal attendents? (4)
8 Tramp’s companion? (4)
15 Eastern lake is creepy (5)
17 Falling over everything (3)
19 More polite with salesman (3)
20 Definitely an article (3)
22 First person regarding anger (3)
24 Wish for a steeple (6)
25 Overlooks anteriors (6)
27 River heron becomes awkward (5)
28 Attorney takes sheep to play (5)
29 Don’t answer, just overtake (4)
30 Vera managed to dance (4)
33 Bring up the back (4)
35 Facts in emergency (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Closes (5)
5 Slum (5)
9 Container (3)
10 Deal (5)
11 Dull green (5)
12 Mesh (3)
13 Negative (3)
14 Colour (3)
16 Utter (3)
18 Man’s name (6)
21 Edge (4)
23 50 per cent (4)
26 Groups of lions (6)
29 For every (3)
31 Pronoun (3)
32 Expert (3)
34 In the past (3)
36 Extraterrestrial (5)
37 Toxin (5)
38 Traitor (3)
39 Act section (5)
40 Types of tree (5)
DOWN
1 Cream tea parts (6)
2 Ring of light (4)
3 Merged (6)
4 Harsh (5)
5 Body parts (5)
6 Verse (3)
7 Animal doctors (4)
8 Titled woman (4)
15 Supernatural (5)
17 Everyone (3)
19 Agent (3)
20 Common word (3)
22 Anger (3) 24 Hope (6)
25 Facades (6)
27 European waterway (5)
28 Crisis (5)
29 Elapse (4)
30 Enthuse (4)
33 Posterior (4)
35 Information (3)