Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Assembled concerning distance (5) 5 Heard chaps’ appearance (5) 9 Faced with expert (3) 10 Aware of later development (5) 11 What’s out, melts (5) 12 Originally called in one engineer (3) 13 Opt to change upper garment (3) 14 The golfer’s conceit (3) 16 Person found in Tasmania (3) 18 Trial or trade (6) 21 Formal custom sounds correct (4) 23 One’s worked for a long time (4) 26 Bad trade died when rushed (6) 29 Couple of the French get nothing (3) 31 Sign from galleon (3) 32 Nobel’s prize (1,1,1)
34 Father left as a friend (3) 36 Ezra confused about uniform blue (5) 37 Radios lost first sign-off (5) 38 Rodent inside crate (3)
39 Mole excited by new fruit (5) 40 Tries out cricket
matches (5)
DOWN
1 Count as substance (6) 2 Repeat in the choir (4) 3 Baby ape running inside vessel (6) 4 Relaxed and stopped, not having started (5) 5 Gone off a place in Italy (5) 6 Certain to miss first river (3)
7 Time to order something (4) 8 College of note, possibly (4) 15 Form of green composition (5) 17 Article on new girls’ name (3) 19 Shade of credibility (3) 20 Shelter
from sleet (3) 22 Letters revealing
debt (1,1,1)
24 So worried about grim aromas (6)
25 He sets out layers (6) 27 Everyone at home is very tired (3,2)
28 Food and
drink (5)
29 Mood affected
destiny (4)
30 Old friend gets a stone (4) 33 Bart turned out to be naughty youngster (4) 35 Bother at a party (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Unit of length (5) 5 Likeness (5)
9 Playing card (3) 10 Conscious (5)
11 Defrosts (5)
12 Born as (3)
13 Summit (3)
14 Self-image (3)
16 Male (3)
18 Trauma (6)
21 Ceremony (4) 23 Ages (4)
26 Rushed (6)
29 Twosome (3)
31 Zodiac Lion (3) 32 Award (1,1,1)
34 Chum (3)
36 Sky colour (5) 37 Goodbye
in Spanish (5) 38 Rodent (3)
39 Cantaloupe (5) 40 Examines (5)
DOWN
1 Stuff (6) 2 Resound (4) 3 Drinks receptacle (6)
4 Loosened (5)
5 Italian city (5)
6 English river (3)
7 Unit (4)
8 Public school (4)
15 Type (5)
17 Ms Widdicombe? (3) 19 Colour (3)
20 Mr Mack? (3)
22 Promissory
note (1,1,1)
24 Smells (6)
25 Bed linen (6)
27 Exhausted (3,2)
28 Charred bread (5) 29 Fate (4)
30 Gemstone (4)
33 Spoilt child (4)
35 Fuss (3)