Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

The odd quiet president (5) Stare wildly at flower (5) Rushed out of France (3)

Let wall be built around nothing (5)

Ivan flew after article like a bird (5) Honest about quantity (3)

Catch in one trap (3) Healthy colour in Istanbul (3) Encourage farm produce (3) Festival involving a steer (6)

He’s in a whirl (4)

23 Changes as

to fodder (4)

26 Sorts a salad for Sunday lunches (6)

29 Sign from galleon (3) Roused about employment (3)

32 Same level within department (3)

34 Hardly sending

ton back (3)

36 A vine turned green (5)

Brush, not having a plant (5)

38 He’s on

the staff (3)

39 Woman finds queen transparent (5)

40 Paradoxical

odds? (5) 1 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 21 31 37

DOWN

1 2 3 4 5 6

Canter off in a daze (6) Vera organised dance party (4) Joined the team (6) Rubbish underwear (5) Beer taken on, on one’s own (5) Child of resonance (3)

Sentimental and terribly wet, note (4) Called for a step (4)

Finally doesn’t finish a book (5) Procure from strange tradesman (3) Port gets

Ray drunk (3)

20 Rubbish

in grotto (3)

22 Owing to condensation, say (3)

24 Yearn for

a steeple (6)

25 Quiet socialists

in scraps (6)

27 Furthest sort

of route (5)

28 Feeling that may

be common (5)

29 Young woman

in glasses (4)

30 Formerly

in concert (4)

33 A victory

on a river (4)

35 Raw material

from forest (3) 7 8 15 17 19

ACROSS

1 Winning suit (5)

5 Daisy-like plant (5)

9 Sprinted (3)

10 Permit (5)

11 Relating to birds (5)

12 Number (3)

13 Mesh (3)

14 Brown (3)

16 Ovum (3)

18 End of Lent (6)

21 Swirl of water (4)

23 Grain (4)

26 Cooks in the oven (6)

29 Zodiac sign (3)

31 Exploit (3)

32 Equal (3)

34 Negative (3)

36 Inexperienced (5)

37 Salad plant (5)

38 Stick (3)

39 Precipitous (5)

40 50-50 chance (5)

DOWN

1 Hypnotic state (6)

2 Babble (4)

3 Merged (6)

4 Undergarments (5)

5 Unaccompanied (5)

6 Boy (3)

7 Over-sentimental (4)

8 Ladder part (4)

15 Book of maps (5)

17 Obtain (3)

19 Scottish port (3)

20 Decay (3)

22 Expected (3)

24 Desire (6)

25 Strips (6)

27 Exterior (5)

28 Feel (5)

29 Girl (4)

30 On a single occasion (4)

33 English river (4)

35 Mineral (3)