Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Shoot last of films
on puritan (5)
5 Aware of later
development (5)
9 Hippies’ food (3) 10 Towel wrapped around youngster (5)
11 Come in from
barren terrain (5) 12 Singing
with spirit (3)
13 Devoured more
than seven, say (3) 14 Betting on
a spring (3)
16 Perform
in Clacton (3)
18 Looked to shelter
socialist (6)
21 Lois ran to
the store (4)
23 Changes as
to fodder (4)
26 Panels
sent to city (6)
29 British and American transport (3)
31 Roused about
employment (3) 32 Mound of
distortions (3)
34 Baby’s drink (3)
36 A massage on a Caribbean island (5)
37 Decorate road,
terribly new (5)
38 Not returning
a great deal (3)
39 Carelessly send with right dull people (5)
40 Terribly wet journalist gets material (5)
DOWN
1 Small fruit as
weapons (6)
2 Stop in time
to have a beer (4) 3 Teller managed
to inform again (6) 4 German cultivates
rose bush (5)
5 A gale disturbed
some plants (5)
6 Flowers
in sleigh (3) 7 Terribly neat
feature of Sicily (4) 8 Cricket match
can be a trial (4)
15 Supports rugby
players (5)
17 Resting place
in Scotland (3)
19 One worked for
a long time (3)
20 Animal gives
party energy (3) 22 Letters revealing
debt (1,1,1)
24 Sharp statue
design (6)
25 Abandon
at the beach (6)
27 Vehicles considered as out (5)
28 The French worker was inclined (5)
29 Blessing bishop
with nothing on (4) 30 Most arguments are about celebrity (4)
33 Former pupil round with eastern instrument (4)
35 Not even
peculiar (3)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Small stem (5)
5 Conscious (5)
9 Pastry item (3)
10 Juvenile bird (5)
11 Go in (5)
12 Alcoholic drink (3)
13 Consumed (3)
14 Treatment centre (3)
16 Behave (3)
18 Ogled (6)
21 Grain tower (4)
23 Porridge
ingredients (4)
26 Italian port (6)
29 Coach (3)
31 Utilise (3)
32 Hill (3)
34 Add up (3)
36 Caribbean island (5) 37 Embellish (5)
38 Weight (3)
39 Geeks (5)
40 Woollen cloth (5)
DOWN
1 Javelins (6)
2 Liquid measure (4)
3 Narrate
once more (6)
4 Shrub (5)
5 Aquatic greenery (5) 6 Garland (3)
7 European volcano (4) 8 Examine (4)
15 Braces (5)
17 Bed (3)
19 Era (3)
20 Female deer (3)
22 Promissory
note (1,1,1)
24 Perceptive (6)
25 Fibre (6)
27 Cars (5)
28 Rested sideways (5) 29 Advantage (4)
30 Sun (4)
33 Woodwind
instrument (4)
35 Strange (3)