CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Halts (5)
8 A premium (5) 10 Land measures
(5)
11 Bind (3) 12 Musical
instrument (5) 13 Strengthen (7) 15 Stadium (5) 18 Transgression
(3)
19 Feline mammal
(6) 21 Reprimand (7) 22 Experts (4) 23 Musical term
(4)
24 Coloured arc (7) 26 Small stones (6) 29 Paddle (3) 31 Cold dish (5) 32 Student (7) 34 Begin working
(3,2)
35 Doze (3) 36 Concur (5)
37 To father (5) 38 Smug smile (5)
DOWN
1 Helicopter blade
(5)
2 Estimates (7) 4 Row (4) 5 Monarch’s
residence (6) 6 Group of twenty
(5)
7 Party (5) 9 Nothing (3) 12 Middle (7) 14 Twitch (3)
16 Arm joint (5) 17 Book of maps
(5)
19 South American
river (7)
20 Teeth (5) 21 Lawful (5) 23 Small crown (7) 24 Regain (6) 25 Expression of
contempt (3) 27 Scope (5) 28 Urns (5) 30 Jacket part (5) 32 Move (4) 33 Insulate (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Imagine a little drink out East (5)
8 Though beneficial, a burden to a bighead (5) 10 It’s a different thing when it falls (5) 11 Prisoner of the
Gulag (3) 12 Crowned heads
at college (5) 13 Got mixed up with Ted Lang (7)
15 A little tiny piece, you’ll admit (3,2) 18 No ecclesiastical letter from lady (3) 19 Being calm, sneer wryly as the race finishes (6) 21 Dishes up anew an out-ofthe-way repast (7)
22 Rush at a mad
rate (4)
23 The cheapest part is better avoided (4) 24 As worn for act four, perhaps? (3,4)
26 Beer or punch
(6)
29 People who never have a weekend out! (3) 31 Seen staggering round the bend so as to follow (5)
32 In circulation in
a big way (2,5) 34 I’m past being a perfect creature! (5) 35 Pass as an
officer (3) 36 Avoid by a trick
(5)
37 Tip of a plant?
(5)
38 The sort of man
targeted? (5)
DOWN
1 It’s a big thing
in dentistry (5) 2 An expert at throwing and catching (7) 4 Operation for which you need the right backup (4) 5 Catches fish by
degrees? (6) 6 Skinflint getting faultless service on the motorway (5)
7 It has links with the mail, maybe (5) 9 Grandma’s
bread? (3) 12 Notably tense and ready to play (5,2)
14 It gets a racing driver nowhere (3)
16 Belief in looking unmoved when given a rise? (5)
17 Whence, in Wales, a new hat is on the way (5) 19 Stay with, as a loyal adherent (5,2) 20 School for love in the wild west (5)
21 Birds in bars
(5)
23 Criticise long, and in dashing style! (7) 24 Enemies of
poetry? (6) 25 Natural resource maybe helping to make millions (3) 27 Forename of the six-footer in front (5) 28 Ludwig’s Italian
(5)
30 It’s built with sound glue at the medical centre (5) 32 Trouble from a
guerilla (4) 33 A diminutive Australian bounder (3)