CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES ACROSS

3 Bottle (5) 8 Gemstone (5) 10 Provide (3,2) 11 Container (3) 12 Male voice (5) 13 Television

screen (7) 15 Magic servant (5) 18 Pinch (3) 19 Handbook (6) 21 Deer meat (7) 22 Sharpen (4) 23 Dispatch (4) 24 Harasses (7) 26 Fuel (6) 29 Number (3) 31 Rope-making

fibre (5) 32 Lockjaw (7) 34 Distinct (5) 35 Not bottom (3) 36 Embankment (5) 37 Mannequin (5) 38 Lees (5)

DOWN

1 Engine (5) 2 Furniture item (7) 4 Ogle (4) 5 Catchword (6) 6 Girl’s name (5) 7 Bulgarian

capital (5) 9 Play on words (3) 12 Of current

affairs (7) 14 Metallic

element (3) 16 Naked figures (5) 17 Evade (5) 19 Brute (7) 20 Exchanges (5) 21 Singlets (5) 23 Legislator (7) 24 Shout (6) 25 Permit (3) 27 Sea duck (5) 28 Engaged in a speed contest (5) 30 Hoodwinks (5) 32 Sharp taste (4) 33 Signal agreement (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Hoodlums, after starting trouble, give evidence of affection (5) 8 Ingredient in a drink not stirred, I see (5) 10 Quick and quiet

in attack (5) 11 When there’s a bit of an inundation, she’s very good (3) 12 Having a lot to eat, will give added strength (5) 13 Is a lout, perhaps, but can beat the opposition in a yacht race (7) 15 Low fellow placing a bigwig before royalty (5) 18 Brief affirmation

of artistry? (3) 19 Doddering, I left, possibly being seen out (6) 21 A game to

stick at (7) 22 Not all new ornaments are put on one’s person (4) 23 One manages to do so for oneself (4) 24 Made to react, perhaps, by the Editor (7) 26 Said to be good

hearted (6) 29 A child completely friendless (3) 31 More secure way to collect fares (5) 32 Eccentric charmer giving a pedestrian demonstration? (7) 34 Big Ben (5) 35 Many have left home to work on the land (3) 36 Giant animal? (5) 37 Adept historians always show profundity (5) 38 Far from new, but it can be oiled (5)

DOWN

1 A piece of ribbon usually is a nice something extra (5) 2 He gains weight (7) 4 Climbing it, is one apt to breathe

badly? (4) 5 Like the image of a little old lady out for a great day? (6) 6 It’s of material interest to dressmakers (5) 7 It’s an offence to be ill, possibly! (5) 9 Head teachers’

union? (3) 12 Tank put right in the nicest possible way (7) 14 Part of the terrain the Scots own (3) 16 Longed to have half a pint with Edward (5) 17 Prepared to interpret a letter (5) 19 Maybe only one or two musicians can play them (7) 20 For these people, southwest is south! (5) 21 Definite evidence of a professor having nothing to hide (5) 23 Realised, at a

price (7) 24 Serial heard at breakfast, perhaps? (6) 25 The height of

rhetoric (3) 27 Belonging to the pope, as a father figure (5) 28 Wild donkey that’s lost its tail in the fencing (5) 30 Those incisive ones at the front? (5) 32 She has half a mind to go by motorway (4) 33 Hopeless flight?

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