Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

Cryptic clues

ACROSS

1 Quietly hoot about picture (5)

5 Land is small nuisance (5)

9 Room for experiment? (3)

10 Total state (5) 11 Distribute a toll differently (5) 12 Wonder in drawer (3) 13 Heard couple as well (3)

14 Hearsay about organ (3)

16 Falling over everything (3) 18 Tension in inner vestry (6)

21 Wasted ages on herb (4) 23 Temperature in the atmosphere (4)

26 Hang around to behold new rite (6) 29 Talk of neon, say (3) 31 Bother at a party (3) 32 Creature of romance (3)

34 Island produce (3) 36 Pressure on crop to get value (5) 37 Animated a veil badly (5)

38 United with fool (3) 39 Quarrel about sword (5)

40 Rushes to get some instruments (5)

DOWN

1 Petals shaped like dishes (6)

2 Harold to ring for some light (4) 3 Former pupil to yearn to get into shape (6)

4 Furthest sort of route (5)

5 Look at new rates (5) 6 Hope woman has somewhere to sit (3) 7 Part of the Far

East (4)

8 Nothing about a form of digital protection (4)

15 Dodge an empty space (5)

17 Field of pleasure (3) 19 Point to the French backstroke swimmer (3)

20 Woman from

Esher (3)

22 Silver on a stove (3) 24 Point miner out some fur (6)

25 Shelters with eastern dogmas (6)

27 Fertile patch for a band (5)

28 Blotto, person admits being inebriate (5) 29 Shine gets German depressed (4)

30 Mark’s out of mascara (4)

33 Sharp as a group of detectives (4)

35 School definitely has got stale (3)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Camera’s shot (5) 5 European state (5) 9 Family dog? (3) 10 Voice (5)

11 Apportion (5) 12 Amazement (3)

13 Also (3)

14 Listening organ (3) 16 Everyone (3) 18 Anxiety (6)

21 Wise man (4) 23 Warmth (4)

26 Linger (6)

29 Type of element (3) 31 Fuss (3)

32 Male (3)

34 Lettuce (3)

36 Cost (5)

37 Living (5)

38 Louse’s egg (3) 39 Groups of letters (5) 40 Water plants (5)

DOWN

1 Crockery items (6) 2 Saintly glow (4) 3 Rectangle (6) 4 Exterior (5)

5 Gape (at) (5)

6 Church seat (3) 7 Region (4)

8 Metal fastener (4) 15 Evade (5)

17 Meadow (3)

19 Slippery fish (3) 20 Pronoun (3) 22 Ottoman ruler (3) 24 Stoat (6)

25 Sets of beliefs (6) 27 Desert watering hole (5)

28 Drunkard (5) 29 Radiate (4)

30 Old wound’s sign (4) 33 Corrosive substance (4) 35 Elderly (3)