CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

4 Beat soundly (6) 7 Draw near to (8) 8 Landed property (6) 10 Scottish landowner (5) 13 Podium (4) 14 Therefore (4) 15 Satisfy fully (4) 16 By way of (3) 17 Stern (4) 19 Rotate (4) 21 Ensure (9) 23 Eager (4) 24 Equipment (4) 26 Bad actor (3) 27 Fat used in cooking (4) 29 Cot (4) 32 Jumps on one foot (4) 33 Ignominy (5) 34 Axioms (6) 35 Entry (8) 36 Begrudge (6)

DOWN

1 Animal fur (5) 2 Small twig (5) 3 Not bad (4) 4 Cereal plant (5) 5 Permits (4) 6 Acquire (6) 9 Afternoon nap (6) 11 Noah’s vessel (3) 12 Rascal (5) 13 Harms (7) 15 Teacher’s title (3) 16 Contend (3) 18 Kidnapper’s payment (6) 20 Roost (5) 21 Jewel (3) 22 Mesh (3) 23 Martial art (6) 25 Raised edge (3) 28 Tip over (5) 30 Wet or showery (5) 31 Cant (5) 32 Employ (4) 33 Painful (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

4 Has he winning ways? (6) 7 Send on a voyage (8) 8 Distribute something like butter (6) 10 New name? Lisa shiftily takes one (5) 13 It doesn’t normally grow up (4) 14 They dishearten the rabbits, the beasts! (4) 15 At school, perhaps, an extract of buttermilk (4) 16 Toothy girl? (3) 17 Catch with an outright blow (4) 19 Experts at cracking a case? (4) 21 What the punter did with twice the amount of duplicity? (7,2) 23 An opening to think over (4) 24 Always a feature of transitive verbs (4) 26 Drinking makes him so thick-headed! (3) 27 One’s destiny as a well-rounded sweetheart (4) 29 All that’s left of a broken bust? (4) 32 Remedy for a dog with a sore tail (4) 33 A feast, so how can it be a refusal? (5) 34 Walk the street with a sailorly gait (6) 35 Busy finding an opening in fuel distribution (8) 36 Exciting events in Madras (6)

DOWN

1 Alessandro Scarlatti’s first name (5) 2 One can ride in it, as a rule (5) 3 Much time is taken up in obtuse games (4) 4 The knight of old could see through it easily enough (5) 5 Carry up some tracks (4) 6 Speaks of love with distraught tears (6) 9 Ointment made with water (6) 11 Can’t he keep up with prison life? (3) 12 Amid a media storm, the lady made history (5) 13 Travelling salesman allowed an early start, fully loaded (7) 15 Small flap in a table (3) 16 Go very softly around central Harlesden (3) 18 Sorry to run short of fuel, somehow (6) 20 Swear at the skinhead interrupting medical treatment (5) 21 The little woman’s point (3) 22 Has she had her day? (3) 23 Maybe Harry keeps throwing things! (6) 25 He wants money from Southend United! (3) 28 Laser production in France (5) 30 Welshman sweet to the Americans (5) 31 Goes along for a game (5) 32 It’s bulbous and down to earth (4) 33 James’s word of honour? (4)