Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
Encourages London team (5) Stare wildly at flower (5) Number of contents (3) Strength and pressure wore off (5)
Whisper to a team (5)
Wonder in drawer (3) Hardly sending ton back (3) Fairy’s manner (3)
Urge farm produce (3) Deserved to move near journalist (6) Send off results (4) Changes as to fodder (4) Longing to be executed by queen (6)
29 Feel modest about growth (3) Regard for diocese (3) Scared to include transport (3)
34 Are back for a long time (3) A page torn wide open (5)
37 OK bloke (5)
38 Study of cadences (3) Scandinavian food (5)
40 Discards
outbuildings (5)
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DOWN
Man takes church position (6) Somehow pose as something valuable (4) Joined team (6) Pears used as weapon (5) Conscious of a battle to the east (5)
Use a needle like this, say (3) It grows in the street (4)
Call for some jewellery (4) Stupid pub has a point (5)
Tug back on stomach (3) Lashed around Rowan (3)
20 Animal gives
party energy (3) 22 See nothing in
Manila (3)
24 First character raced around some shops (6) 25 Rinses out warning devices (6) America has time for employment (5) 28 Rages about
wheels (5)
29 Muse about
creatures (4)
30 Only a lake (4) 33 Copied primate, on the day (4) Without hesitation, order bent pole (3)
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Solutions in Monday’s Irish Daily Mirror QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Incentives (5)
5 Daisy? (5)
9 Number (3)
10 Potency (5)
11 Stage whisper (5) 12 Amazement (3)
13 Negative (3)
14 Atmosphere (3)
16 Ovum (3)
18 Merited (6)
21 Finishes (4)
23 Grain (4)
26 Need for food (6) 29 Type of tree (3)
31 Notice (3)
32 Vehicle (3)
34 Age (3)
36 Open-mouthed (5) 37 Man’s name (5)
38 Lair (3)
39 Vegetable (5)
40 Shacks (5)
DOWN
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25 27 28 29 30 33 35 Attitude (6) Currency unit (4) Merged (6)
Javelin (5)
Alert (5)
Darn (3)
Large shrub (4) Chime (4) Senseless (5) Intestine (3)
Fire’s remains (3) Female deer (3) Zero (3)
Covered street (6) Temptresses (6) Consumption (5) Cogs (5)
Flightless birds (4) Just (4)
Mimicked (4)
Stick (3)