Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1

Time to parade (5) 5 Left university free to be sensational (5)

9 Are back for a long time (3) 10 Remove a seer forcibly (5) 11 Fool concerning explosive ingredient (5) 12 Rushed out of

France (3) 13 Rubbish in statistics (3) 14 Member of whole group (3) 16 Definitely an article (3) 18 Hear silent arrangement (6) 21 Look for shelter on the right (4) 23 Socialist takes nothing back to river (4) 26 Invest with right to last (6) 29 Whole or just part, say (3) 31 Swimmer feeling around (3) 32 Pinch pin back (3)

34 Wander out of terror (3) 36 About to conceal rebuke (5) 37 Hear criticism of entertainment (5)

38 Talented with a drink (3) 39 Scandinavian food (5) 40 Lures away

from edicts (5) DOWN 1 2 3 4 fish Mad lament Number Marianne Frantic has unnerve Husband of Huge composition Refusal to land Hire Brentwood shoes include time at in sort (1,1,1) Elgar the alert (6) from (6) (5) to of puts (4) back (4) (5) 5 6 7 8 15 Nude mound Point as music Huge third Fired a piece colour with duet sort without (5) (4) of of out (3) 17 19 20 22 fury Neither ignorance Bemused creature (3) out (3) with (3) of 24 Contradiction puts trouble Arranged deal (6) in spree 25 with money Never union lost (6) 27 28 courage Cruel complaint sort (5) (5) of 29 Boss down breaks and cries (4) Only a lake (4) 30 33 Lied about being lazy (4) 35 Shade of credibility (3)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Month (5)

5 Graphic (5)

9 Age (3)

10 Rub out (5)

11 Gunpowder part (5) 12 Sprinted (3)

13 Shabby articles (3) 14 Limb (3)

16 Common word (3) 18 Heed (6)

21 Ogle (4)

23 European river (4) 26 Survive (6)

29 Total (3)

31 Long fish (3)

32 Small drink (3)

34 Stray (3)

36 Scold (5)

37 Sketch show (5)

38 Beer (3)

39 Vegetable (5)

40 Laws (5) DOWN 1 Of the mind (6) 2 Operatic song (4) 3 Clatter (6) 4 Stilettos? (5)

5 Big (5)

6 America (1,1,1)

7 Lease (4)

8 Sand hill (4)

15 Short composition (5)

17 Shade (3)

19 Wrath (3)

20 And not (3)

22 Flightless bird (3) 24 Refusal (6)

25 Currency units (6) 27 Impudence (5)

28 Painful affliction (5) 29 Weeps (4)

30 Just (4)

33 Unoccupied (4)

35 Colour (3)