Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Auction ales off (4)

4 Always in same version (4)

6 Got up like a flower (4)

8 Lazy-sounding hero (4)

11 Vocal man gets peaceful (4)

13 County has finished with girl (7) 14 One worked for a long time (3) 16 Exchange roles with no-hoper (5) 18 A flat turned out to be lethal (5) 21 Place of birth? (5)

22 Working a lot with new nail (5) 24 Set broken leg (3)

25 Everyone bent round first game (7)

28 Weapon gets record points (4) 30 Part of Far East (4)

31 Our Duncan’s tongue (4)

32 Blue feathers (4)

33 Eccentric message (4)

DOWN

1 Slide for small child (4) 2 Creature of pride (4)

3 Left coal production in the vicinity (5)

4 Swimmer feeling around (3) 5 Endlessly regretting wreck (4) 7 Loans arranged at the hairdresser’s (5)

9 Give professor wrong tea (6) 10 The French girl is permissible (5) 12 Encounter report of beef, say (4) 15 Nothing clear about seer (6) 17 Second graduate has morning routine (5)

19 Heard end of story (4)

20 Somehow enrol recluse (5)

23 Require your start to be poor (5) 24 Element of victory? (4)

26 Number from Marianne (4)

27 Country is dull? Not initially (4) 29 Pressure to get a French joke (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Transaction (4) 4 Constantly (4) 6 Romantic gift (4) 8 Adored hero (4) 11 Serene (4) 13 Irish county (7) 14 Era (3) 16 Defeated contestant (5)

18 Deadly (5)

21 Of birth (5)

22 Claw (5)

24 Solidify (3)

25 Team sport (7)

28 Fencing sword (4) 30 Region (4)

31 Asian language (4) 32 Depressed (4)

33 Stiff paper (4)

DOWN

1 Slip (4) 2 Predator (4) 3 Neighbouring (5) 4 Long fish (3) 5 Spoil (4) 7 Large room (5) 9 Bequeath (6) 10 Lawful (5) 12 Converge (4) 15 Prophet (6) 17 Brazilian dance (5)

19 Fable (4)

20 Solitary figure (5) 23 Deprived (5)

24 Precious metal (4) 26 Operatic song (4) 27 Terrain (4)

29 Play on words (3)