Two-speed coffeebreak

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same

Cryptic clues ACROSS

1 Thanks for every

candle (5)

5 Snake on steps is

decapitated (5)

9 Is more than one? (3) 10 Children’s edition (5) 11 Offer to take exercise

like a man (5)

12 Bird from

Shenfield (3)

13 Clapped around

course (3)

14 Level with first

woman (3)

16 Not going back a

great deal (3)

18 Darren wrecked a

mission (6)

21 Rite using flag (4)

23 Changes as to

fodder (4)

26 Shrub puts pressure

on fastener (6)

29 Speaking about food (3)

31 Some poetry from Roderick (3)

32 Started with sailor (3)

34 Stop a woman with

hand (3)

36 Former spouse to lie about banishment (5)

37 Guide a bull (5)

38 About to have nothing but caviar (3)

39 Hesitation follows that woman’s rank (5)

40 Weather affected steel (5)

DOWN

1 Medicine makes list on time (6)

2 Solo from Marianne (4)

3 About to raise quiet enthusiasm for spice (6)

4 Equestrian clause (5)

5 Shane collapsed, pale (5)

6 Owing to condensation, say (3)

7 Study temperature on impact (4)

8 Destroy what’s left of castle (4)

15 Woman finds identification current (5)

17 Not acceptable in

youth (3)

19 More polite with

salesman (3)

20 Animal gives party

energy (3)

22 Juicer contains cold

thing (3)

24 A trite design for

dress (6)

25 Small oak, say, at

junction in road (6)

27 Argumentative

sportsman? (5)

28 Swerves, rewriting

verse (5)

29 Don’t answer:

overtake (4)

30 Relapsed in church

recess (4)

33 Beer gets round

plant (4)

35 Devoured more than

seven, say (3)

Quick clues ACROSS

1 Narrow (5)

5 Viper (5)

9 Plural of is (3)

10 Matter (5)

11 Two-legged creature (5)

12 Domestic fowl (3)

13 Circuit (3)

14 Previous day (3)

16 Large weight (3)

18 Chore (6)

21 Weaken (4)

23 Grain (4)

26 Hedge plant (6)

29 Vegetable (3)

31 Poem (3)

32 Bitumen (3)

34 Animal’s foot (3)

36 Outcast (5)

37 Navigate (5)

38 Fish eggs (3)

39 Precipitous (5)

40 Slushy rain (5)

DOWN

1 Pill (6)

2 Operatic song (4)

3 Condiment (6)

4 Horseman (5)

5 Colourless (5)

6 Expected (3)

7 Hollow (4)

8 Spoil (4)

15 Acceptable (5)

17 Eliminated (3)

19 Agent (3)

20 Female deer (3)

22 Frozen water (3) 24 Costume (6)

25 Thoroughfare (6) 27 Oarsman (5)

28 Changes direction (5)

29 Elapse (4)

30 Church recess (4)

33 Soothing succulent (4)

35 Consumed (3)

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror