Bangkok Post

CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Cherished hopes (6) 7 Hand tool (5,3) 8 Simple (4) 10 Native American (6) 11 Mysterious (6) 14 Neckwear item (3) 16 Wanderer (5) 17 Italian city (4) 19 Two-footed animal (5) 21 Raid, inroad (5) 22 Managed (5) 23 Coarse file (4) 26 Backless seat (5) 28 Petty lie (3) 29 Edible seed (6) 30 Outcome (6) 31 Revise (4) 32 Stretch (8) 33 Numerical symbol (6)

DOWN 1 Abscond (6) 2 Shrub (6) 3 Eyelid inflammati­on (4) 4 Voyage (7) 5 Religion (5) 6 Woollen cloth (5) 8 Consumes (4) 9 Female person (3) 12 Fish (3) 13 Titles (5) 15 Weary (5) 18 Furious (5) 19 Dance, informally (3) 20 Residence, slang (3) 21 Leaves of a plant (7) 22 Crib (3) 23 Revolt (6) 24 Adjoin (4) 25 Thick soup (6) 26 Slumber (5) 27 Edible bulb (5) 28 Gave food to (3) 30 Ridge of coral (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Can get led astray when there’s little light (6) 7 Active users of both car and boats (8) 8 Having courage, neverthele­ss clears out (4) 10 German cheers! (6) 11 Pass over a rugged region (6) 14 But which half of the horse does it urge into action? (3) 16 Being so unpopular, had to get out of some hotel (5) 17 Area of the back door? (4) 19 Claps wildly when there’s a trophy (5) 21 He’s in port (5) 22 Junior’s cat is just about half dead (5) 23 Lord Greystoke’s lady (4) 26 Flare in wild fashion (5) 28 Sausage variety? (3) 29 In general, he and others were the death of Charles I (6) 30 Shannon Tweed? (6) 31 Provident poet? (4) 32 Arithmetic test for the under five (5,3) 33 There are various things he can make a meal of (6)

DOWN 1 The line of a cooperativ­e monarch (6) 2 Please get accustomed to being put out! (6) 3 Direction in line astern (4) 4 Near enough lacking in tenderness (7) 5 Historic navigator of many a new boat (5) 6 Called for in sad distress about a terrible half week (5) 8 Do such dancers exit twice? (2-2) 9 A knotty game? (3) 12 Can you make a pile playing it? (3) 13 Reginald gets one of King Lear’s daughters (5) 15 Prison officer in need of a driver? (5) 18 Earlier extract of petrol, derv, etc. (5) 19 Sorry Sadie’s lost, that is (3) 20 He’s got the knack (3) 21 Only Abe churns out rubbish! (7) 22 Animal act, maybe (3) 23 Cheerful little person, given a bottle (6) 24 But not too old to get a bit enraged? (4) 25 Time that egg! (6) 26 Light-headed age? (5) 27 Send it to part of Fremantle (5) 28 Short division (3) 30 Capacity for living? (4)

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