Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 City for cavorting pairs (5) 5 Aware of later development (5) 9 Is more than one (3) 10 Avid to agree to change (5) 11 Dirge about a bank (5)
12 Fuss at a party (3) 13 School nowadays is gloomy (3) 14 Young Dorothy comes to a full stop (3) 16 Notice mole (3) 18 Holiday involving a steer (6) 21 Incentive to have money (4) 23 Changes as to fodder (4) 26 Cricket team’s legs? (6)
29 Tool kept in shoes (3)
31 Raw material from forest (3) 32 Facts in an emergency (3) 34 Unprepared for war, possibly (3)
36 A vine turned green (5)
37 We sat around — hard work (5) 38 One writer’s novel (3) 39 Woman finds the queen transparent (5) 40 Terms for small dishes (5)
DOWN
1 Equal time and distance (6) 2 Number from Marianne (4) 3 Show shame at socialist study (6) 4 Origins of Wimbledon favourites (5) 5 An entrance of stone (5) 6 Guided by a small light (3) 7 God of the roses (4)
8 Art brought up on unknown platter (4) 15 Creature less cold in the East End (5) 17 Kitty container (3) 19 Consumed more than seven, say (3) 20 About to have nothing but caviar (3) 22 The golfer’s conceit (3)
24 A new drink gives a hearty complaint (6) 25 Small wines turn out to be sources of strength (6) 27 Inferior cow? (5) 28 Expresses openings (5) 29 Sound like a snake (4) 30 Language in another sentence (4) 33 Still in the venture (4) 35 Amazement in drawer (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 European capital (5) 5 Conscious (5) 9 Plural of is (3) 10 Keen (5)
11 Crest (5) 12 Bother (3) 13 Miserable (3) 14 Speck (3) 16 Secret agent (3) 18 Religious festival (6) 21 US coin (4) 23 Grain (4) 26 Number (6) 29 Garden implement (3) 31 Mineral (3) 32 Information (3) 34 Uncooked (3) 36 Inexperienced (5) 37 Perspire (5) 38 Fresh (3) 39 Precipitous (5) 40 Bridges (5)
DOWN
1 Astronomical distance (6) 2 Operatic song (4) 3 Blush (6) 4 Plant ovules (5) 5 Gemstone (5) 6 Went ahead (3) 7 Greek god (4) 8 Salver (4) 15 River mammal (5) 17 Cooking vessel (3) 19 Devoured (3) 20 Fish eggs (3) 22 Self-image (3) 24 Chest pains (6) 25 Tendons (6) 27 Subordinate (5) 28 Gaps (5) 29 Jeer, boo (4) 30 Irish Gaelic (4) 33 Level (4) 35 Wonder (3)