EASY CLUES
USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.
ACROSS
9 Horse show (8) 10 Crowd (3) 11 Breathe out (6) 12 Sausage in a roll (3,3) 13 Most possible (7) 14 Eye part (4) 15 Office communication (10) 17 Skittles (8) 18 Suffocate (7) 19 Manner of walking (4) 21 Occur (6) 24 Interesting object (12,5) 27 Pure (6) 29 Curved structure (4) 30 Best (7) 33 Suave or slick person, informally (8) 35 Snapshot (10) 36 Broad smile (4) 37 African country (7) 38 Furore (6) 40 Sheen (6) 41 Nought (3) 42 Musical work (8)
DOWN 1 Syringe (10) 2 Uncontrolled slide (4) 3 Tongue (8) 4 Artificial (3-4) 5 Horrible thing (11) 6 Nautical skill (10) 7 Marine crustacean (6) 8 Confederation (8) 10 Motto (5) 16 Excursions (7) 20 Loft (5) 22 Prime minister (7) 23 Property seller (6,5) 25 Impartial (4-6) 26 Infuriate (10) 28 Funny (8) 31 Deep (8) 32 Ruler (7) 34 Elaborately decorated (6) 35 Danger (5) 39 Long journey (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
9 Not getting a mite worried about it? Never! (2,2,4) 10 Knock back, as usual (3) 11 Smiling, I claim to be exploited (6) 12 Rabbit the baby likes to have in its pram (6) 13 Wild bear in an animal show (7) 14 Catch some in retreat (4) 15 When low on money, what to have for tea? (10) 17 Continues to make profits (8) 18 Having come back, worked regularly at again (7) 19 Will it carry back nine at a time? (4) 21 When he leaves here at eleven, settle in (6) 24 Rest that one, in all fairness, deserves? (3,5,2,3,4) 27 Don’t accept the parent’s taken to drink (4,2) 29 Put, inside it, a love letter (4) 30 The long-suffering alto is having to change key in it (7) 33 A girl imprisoned for having wasted money (8) 35 All second-hand? We’re used to that! (7,3) 36 Catch on to a branch (4) 37 Unsheathe, to make one talk (4,3) 38 Performing their number in it, do really well (6) 40 Decree the road must be repaired in (6) 41 Came out on top, you say, in both halves (3) 42 When the food is cooked, slipping off (3-5)
DOWN
1 Affection you feel for someone you’re stuck on? (10) 2 Wolf in close up (4) 3 Quite big, but not immeasurably so (8) 4 Stretched out in the shade, long to (7) 5 Apt to take for one’s own use (11) 6 After this, my teaching days are over, my sweet! (4,6) 7 Seem busy making attire for the period piece (6) 8 Seen to be highly thought of (8) 10 Mad to free the imprisoned sailor (5) 16 Seen in seas so rough they make your hair curl? (7) 20 Dealing with roughly (5) 22 Going off to get a coin to telephone (7) 23 Squabble with, when you queue up? (3,4,1,3) 25 Seeing what you have to say for youself (3-7) 26 China has a problem with depravity (3,7) 28 Are we prepared to sit in for, so to speak? (2,2,4) 31 In giving a garbled version of, is cheating (8) 32 Saying there’s a metal animal outside it (7) 34 A remarkable cue (6) 35 One’s to squeeze the ring into the loop (5) 39 Nonsense! Light up! (4)