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USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
8 Design (7) 9 Table (9) 13 Frighten (5) 14 Din (5) 15 Stuffy (7) 16 Rumour (7) 17 Tab (5) 18 Sequence (5) 20 Oarsman (5) 22 Ripe (6) 23 Hard (6) 25 Argument (7) 27 Wander (7) 30 Spruce (6) 31 Comment (6) 32 Breadth (5) 35 Name (5) 36 Follow (5) 37 Dish (7) 39 Period (7) 41 Vagrant (5) 42 Tend (5) 43 Sadly (9) 44 Stress (7)
DOWN
1 Cigar (6) 2 Spray (8) 3 Apple (6,5) 4 Cheese (9) 5 Efficient (7) 6 Bed (4-6) 7 Certain (4) 10 Parent (6) 11 Flowers (7) 12 Bird (6) 19 Attired (7) 21 Dog (7) 24 Accelerate (4,2,5) 26 Current (7-3) 28 All-round (9) 29 Sideways (7) 30 Abhor (6) 32 Debility (8) 33 Insect (6) 34 Maybe (7) 38 Fish (6) 40 Circle (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
8 Arrive bearing a new lip make up (7) 9 Thought to be spirit I’d poured neat into (9) 13 An invention brought in by a foreigner (5) 14 No good at all in the point-to-point (5) 15 Father’s got the makings of a true bacteriologist (7) 16 Digging for gold, set a trap in (7) 17 Utter lady, the Queen (5) 18 Was very fond of the odd ramble, round about half term (5) 20 A mutt caught in cheating (5) 22 Inordinately, over and over again (3-3) 23 States a quarter are opposed to it (6) 25 Where you land a good right and then a left (7) 27 A gun holster? (3-4) 30 Grits one’s teeth and smiles when the day is through (6) 31 Round the hole the small runners race (6) 32 Quick to attack the soft heart (5) 35 The car flattens it (5) 36 Open at the above time (5) 37 Understand it’s safe to carry a gun with it (5,2) 39 Divers are always covered in salt (7) 41 For her, it’s hard to turn round inside (5) 42 Send the pinger back (5) 43 On the subject of viewing (9) 44 Either hides or allows the public to see (7)
DOWN
1 Did the same when the fish pie came in (6) 2 Such a pace as the smack travels at? (8) 3 A good beginning for the fledgling? (6,5) 4 Later, when the hornet flies onto the coat (7,2) 5 They bite, kiddies! (7) 6 Ignored the past-its-prime port (6,4) 7 At this point we’re told to listen (4) 10 Came by, or was given, a name (6) 11 In the oven cut up, sir, melting, or rendering (7) 12 Seem affronted by ‘The British are slackers’ (6) 19 Arrives after the act, to have a drink (5,2) 21 First I took Latin - I got ploughed (7) 24 How you could tell straightaway someone was irritated? (4,7) 26 Ordinary or extraordinary speed at which a train moves (10) 28 An inky finger mark on the drawing? (9) 29 Intend, also, to get into the group (7) 30 In return I tease mum for looking gaudy (6) 32 Answered that it’s wrong to have a grass border (8) 33 Give to the girl-friend on entering (6) 34 Bump into the daughter taking the dog out (7) 38 To put the fellow in the shade would be kind (6) 40 Regard as a selling point for the estate agent (4)