STANDARD TWO-IN-ONE CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS
9 They show you very easily that it’s six thirty (5,4)
10 Looking up at the sky, make for home (4,4)
12 Sense you have an instinctive aptitude for (4)
13 For a start, I have to rewrite the passage (6)
14 Again say thanks for putting in the new trees (7)
15 The warm-hearted crew of the icebreaker? (4,5)
17 Discover the note when you get home (4,1,4)
18 An odd outburst of anger on the way (7)
20 What you’ve been cooking since getting into a rut? (6)
21 A certain additional problem is spoken of (4)
24 Tell me again what’s cooking in the hot container (4,4)
26 He sees you clutch the drink sent out (8)
28 When given the centre court, behaves (4)
29 Tipped, went furtively off (6)
31 Urge the locals to house the poor people (7)
34 A poor keeper but a sport? (4,5)
36 Can’t understand it when you don’t notice (4,2,3)
38 Refuse, in a terrible rage, to accept the case (7)
39 Incense in a funny green container (6) 40 Not charged for the pad (4)
41 Attacked the twit taking the girl back (8)
42 The beginning, but not the first round! (6,3)
DOWN
1 Full details about a number of thefts (3,5)
2 Not thoroughly ill? (6)
3 Will get one back into shape? Go on! (8)
4 The girl’s got a fifty in history (6)
5 Such a nuisance writing an advertising slogan for a cigarette! (4,1,3)
6 OK. Bleached to just the right degree (4,6)
7 Say lamb stew is great (7)
8 Write, almost illegibly, “sun-stroke” (6)
11 Awful fate met the woman in the aviary (7)
16 Frank is about one’s height (6)
19 Nonsense! Put in a big perch! (5)
20 Hand back the deserter (3)
22 Margaret getting a first love letter (5)
23 The pound popped inside see as an insult (6)
25 Gosh, they do make an unholy din! (5,5)
26 The rotten fish is sent back (3)
27 A chit for the cases! (7)
30 Means the wine’s last to go in (8)
31 Produce, in the fight arena (5,3)
32 Covered the outhouse to keep the warmth in (8)
33 The case of the circus performers and the old slattern (7)
35 Attack, catching us with a jagged horn (6)
36 Favouring, at the outset, plenty of trees (6)
37 Also swinging on the bar (6)
EASY PUZZLE ACROSS
9 Easily (5,4)
10 Shook (8)
12 Plant (4)
13 Kept (6)
14 Tank (7)
15 Painting (9)
17 Start (9)
18 Remote (7)
20 Movement (6)
21 Halt (4)
24 Herb(8)
26 Killer (8)
28 Smooth (4)
29 Grab (6)
31 Made (7)
34 Pirate (9)
36 Onlooker (9)
38 Grave (7)
39 Shrewd (6)
40 Liberate (4)
41 Too young (8)
42 Ludicrous (9)
DOWN
1 Chuckled (8)
2 Lock up (6)
3 Agreement (8)
4 False (6)
5 Distributes (5,3)
6 Roundabout (10)
7 Corrosive (7)
8 Swiss city (6)
11 Slovenly (7)
16 Steps (6)
19 Quiver (5)
20 People (3)
22 Turn (5)
23 Agreement (6)
25 Biscuit (6,4)
26 Tree (3)
27 Wordy (7)
30 Menace (8)
31 Old joke (8)
32 Shaded (8)
33 Stabbing weapon (7)
35 Minding (6)
36 Fix (6)
37 Beats (6)