CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

3 Fellows (5) 8 Conspiracy (5) 10 Quick (5) 11 Hill (3) 12 Polite (5) 13 Optimistic (7) 15 Mannequin (5) 18 Drinks counter (3) 19 Fruit (6) 21 Fortified building (7) 22 Nagging (2,2) 23 Clip (4) 24 Fairground prize (7) 26 Newspaper boss (6) 29 Large container (3) 31 Spondulix (5) 32 Normal (7) 34 Wanderer (5) 35 Manipulate fraudulently (3) 36 Fool (5) 37 Outcast (5) 38 Prepared (5)

DOWN

1 Truncheon (5) 2 Welsh rabbit (7) 4 Greet enthusiastically (4) 5 First (6) 6 Hairdresser’s shop (5) 7 Female fox (5) 9 Dance (3) 12 Museum official (7) 14 Corpulent (3) 16 Intimidate (5) 17 Lighting devices (5) 19 Dear (7) 20 Tribal emblem (5) 21 Hut (5) 23 Stitches (7) 24 Prairie dog (6) 25 Horse (3)

27 Dull (5) 28 Male voice (5) 30 Ring-shaped roll (5) 32 Surprise attack (4) 33 Impudent talk (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Moves fast to start work on a shipwreck (5) 8 Painter of a house? Nonsense! (5) 10 Seeking nourishment, they go to ground (5) 11 You wouldn’t call one “old scout” (3) 12 Weak enough to flop outright (5) 13 The glass is falling, it would seem (7) 15 Lilac-gathering girl? (5) 18 Green and pleasant land (3) 19 Decorations for me and the new lads (6) 21 By which to graduate? (7) 22 Provident poet? (4) 23 In Africa, small extract from the paper (4) 24 Very quick to get angry (7) 26 It’s worth looking at the amount of money for fuel, possibly (6) 29 Jack, who could take Paul in? (3) 31 Sing high in the

Alps (5) 32 Forbear to call the ref a shower (7) 34 Not a soft word! (5) 35 She may be back (3) 36 Quietly increased one’s ordinary writing (5) 37 Powerless to give one a rent adjustment (5) 38 Is only half of it unwise rubbish? (5)

DOWN

1 A substitute for some indisposed columnist? (5) 2 Being disabled, the aristocrat suffered (7) 4 German, but he has a British car (4) 5 Paddy has an afterthought about these costs (6) 6 Though dependable, one gets sold out (5) 7 A picture of placidity? (5) 9 A trumpet piece ‘con spirito!’ (3) 12 Scared by loud abuse (7) 14 A supporter legally without a friend (3) 16 They’re apt to be plastered (5) 17 New ideas to which actors may be deaf (5) 19 Was worthy of ceremony in the Mediterranean region (7) 20 In my case, anybody can provide the

finance (5) 21 The couple had a meal (5) 23 Is such an account concerned with cash flow? (7) 24 More completely occupied (6) 25 Undoing of a lout! (3) 27 Not the way a self-possessed correspondent signs himself? (5) 28 One kind of food, out East, a great deal eaten (5) 30 Ranks among the prettier sights (5) 32 Did he organise the break up of the USSR? (4) 33 Hail in the street (3)