Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
1 Reportedly tolerate being
nude (4)
4 Cut in harvest (4)
6 Lois ran to the store (4)
8 Change during meditation (4) 11 New as a stars agency (4)
13 In fact, a terrible follower (7) 14 Plead for three keys (3)
16 Frenchman has new tree to
gauge (5)
18 Loud, competent story (5)
21 Santa’s new demon (5)
22 Old king notes avarice (5)
24 Flowers in sleigh (3)
25 Soldiers don’t finish
course (7)
28 Chief sea (4)
30 Dire sort of drive (4)
31 Check of more intensity (4) 32 Contented with tepee (4)
33 Mix in prison (4)
DOWN
1 Sirloin gets complaint? (4)
2 Managed to get one in bad
conditions (4)
3 Reversible note (5)
4 Produce island broadcast (3) 5 Advertise bung (4)
7 Fastenings on different
scale (5)
9 Harm barrier with time (6)
10 Furniture list (5)
12 Help make a wager (4)
15 Removed deer as diseased (6) 17 Animal on time to chew
pair (5)
19 Broke rib on medium edge (4) 20 Creepy eastern lake (5)
23 Possibly mined for
material (5)
24 Tool wasted money (4)
26 Herb makes cash (4)
27 Not far from one
argument (4)
29 Partner’s painting (3)
Quick clues ACROSS
1 Naked (4) 1 Type of meat (4)
4 Riding whip (4) 2 Precipitation (4)
6 Farm tower (4) 3 Half a semibreve (5) 8 Revise (4) 4 Lettuce (3)
11 US space 5 Stopper (4)
organisation (4) 7 Shoe ties (5)
13 Zealot (7) 9 Injure (6)
14 Implore (3) 10 Counter (5)
16 Gauge (5) 12 Aid in crime (4)
18 Myth (5) 15 Rubbed out (6)
21 Devil (5) 17 Long-snouted
22 Gluttony (5) mammal (5)
24 Garland (3) 19 Brink (4)
25 Diet (7) 20 Supernatural (5)
28 Principal (4) 23 Jeans fabric (5)
30 Travel (4) 24 Plunder (4)
31 Harness (4) 26 Flavouring (4)
32 Canvas shelter (4) 27 Close (4)
33 Move (4) 29 Craft (3)
Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Mirror
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