Crossword
USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
9 London station (8) 10 Bread roll (3)
11 Wild ass (6)
12 Sacred beetle (6) 13 Erudite (7)
14 Mosque prayer-leader
(4)
15 Emergency vehicles (10) 17 Religious convert (8) 18 Military man (7) 19 Castle ditch (4)
21 Over there (6)
24 PCs (8,9)
27 Greatest possible
amount (6)
29 Cooking fat (4)
30 Ideal (7)
33 Rabble (8) 35 Ornamental hanging
light (10)
36 Looks at (4)
37 Miniature three-dimensional scene (7)
38 Negligent (6)
40 Ever (6)
41 Hearing organ (3) 42 Prehistoric creature (8)
DOWN
1 Idiot (10)
2 Celebrity (4)
3 Card game (8) 4 Ill-fortune (3,4)
5 Hour at which a pub
can start serving (7,4) 6 Well done! (4,3,3) 7 Outcast (6)
8 Witty remark (8) 10 Copper and zinc alloy
(5)
16 Experience (7) 20 Happen (5) 22 Necessary (7) 23 Vegetable (11) 25 Unconventional (10) 26 Flourishing (10)
28 Three-wheeled vehicle
(8)
31 Permanent (8) 32 Dangers (7)
34 Of government finances
(6)
35 Seat (5)
39 The majority (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 Shrink from making a
commitment (8) 10 Towards the right,
there’s high ground (3) 11 Vaguely interested to start with, on the whole (6)
12 Gets muddled up when one speaks angrily to (6)
13 The characters whose premises you’re occupying (7) 14 Besides, a pound’s
nothing! (4)
15 Silly, though having a
really good mind (5-5) 17 Denoted I would be by
myself until then (8) 18 Did start cold, then
warmed up (7)
19 Stop giving support (4) 21 Harp on the fact that sins will be absolved in it (6) 24 Accepting a totally
demeaning tip? (9,2,6) 27 Producing a dessert got us into some difficulties (6)
29 Girl you’re buying the flowers for - or fruit (4)
30 Drive round, first,
and that’s not right (7) 33 Decolonise and disturb the even tenor of existence (8) 35 The time and speed
are poor (6-4)
36 Let out, in a while
returned (4)
37 She went raving mad
when I ran into her! (7) 38 An alternative to
slacks? (6)
40 Faithless and lying (6) 41 United came out
on top, we’re told (3) 42 A lack of cordiality?
The cheek! (8)
DOWN
1 Does it monopolise all
the wares? (6,4)
2 Light up? Balderdash!
(4)
3 Not so good as to have an unassailable lead? (8) 4 Catch at the one turning - the foreigner (7)
5 A very short time to put you in the picture? (5,6)
6 Prevailing upon to show one’s religious belief (10)
7 That sounds fair for
the passage (6)
8 Single page summaries,
one supposes (8)
10 In colour, it is
colossal (5)
16 The risks are many
she can run (7)
20 Hard to unscrew,
though well oiled (5) 22 “Mum,” you say, “what makes the room so dark?” (7) 23 “Tut, this isn’t the bitter
I ordered”? (4,7) 25 What keeps you from having the odd tantrum? (4,6)
26 Scold just as you start
liking the job (4,2,4) 28 A bauble with an inscribed name, badly torn (8)
31 Having demolished the gin and It, I get on with the firing (8)
32 From the very beginning,
are irritating (7)
34 Take from or put into
the amended text (6) 35 Because the north is covered in snow and ice (5)
39 Had left after midnight -
an hour after (4)