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USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
9 Exactly the same (9) 10 Fragrant (8)
12 Footwear item (4) 13 Musical work (6) 14 More unpleasant (7) 15 Continual (9) 17 Unaware (9)
18 Smoked herrings (7) 20 Scotch (6)
21 Golfer’s cry (4) 24 Gather (8)
26 Answer (8)
28 Pitcher (4)
29 English county (6) 31 Wimp (7)
34 40s dance (9) 36 Famous film actor (5,4) 38 Part left over (7) 39 Planet (6)
40 Ballet skirt (4) 41 Military morning call
(8)
42 Police department (4,5)
DOWN
1 Cosmetic item (8) 2 Courageous (6) 3 Students (8)
4 Supple (6)
5 Pasta tubes (8) 6 Breakfast cereal (10) 7 Enormous (7) 8 Japanese self-defence
system (6)
11 Thrive (7)
16 European country (6) 19 Sheriff’s men (5) 20 Misery (3)
22 Fertile spot (5) 23 Sheepdog (6) 25 Blowfly (10)
26 Beam (3)
27 Lying under oath (7) 30 Formally record (8) 31 Unorthodox (8) 32 Convince (8)
33 Akin (7)
35 Wood (6)
36 Reason for action (6) 37 Zodiac sign (6)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
9 Packed theirs in the one that’s going up (2,3,4)
10 A box with a purplish
red cover: metal (8) 12 Once I got time for
leave (4)
13 Go out with a bang (6) 14 The Indian salesman’s taken back the plant (7)
15 Wrongly give the Latin translation in it as “watchman” (9) 17 Due to the clamp, being, indeed, unhappy (9)
18 Book you save for a
rainy day (7)
20 Take the ring-road in:
a new decree (6) 21 Spend a lot on powder?
(4)
24 Find it difficult, though you are in employment (4,1,3)
26 Being there, with the
said offerings (8)
28 Spy something the make-up is trying to conceal? (4)
29 Give an indication that
you hear (6)
31 Arrive roughly about lunchtime at the holiday destination (7)
34 When, without doubt,
you’ll discover (9)
36 Be given an opportunity to become as acerbic as (3,1,5)
38 Believe you’ll get the
bird (7) 39 In dire trouble, about
to see the boss (6) 40 About fifty, overweight
and dull (4)
41 Leave, terribly angry
about being exposed (8) 42 What the building worker did when drunk? (9)
DOWN
1 Besides, it’s further
across (8)
2 On the way, call for the
pearls (6)
3 Tip a cent? That’s ridiculous. It’s very little money (8)
4 Next day the bee is
buzzing about (6) 5 Added a couple
of pages, which
finished it (8)
6 What the greedy sellers imagine they’ll get? (5,5)
7 Even changing the cover round brightened things up (7)
8 A strange tailless cat
making a row (6)
11 Did she get the bird when performing first? (7)
16 The less petite redhead taking the beer round (6)
19 Evade the issue of accommodation for the animal (5) 20 Alternatively, black ball
(3)
22 Strange clue about the
right to have money (5) 23 Goes for the lettuce?
(6)
25 Fair, also, which is to
the good (4,2,4)
26 Pop back to fix (3)
27 I myself hold the ticket,
so it’s a deadlock (7) 30 Had got in and somehow undone, is the insinuation (8) 31 It’s sensible to have the animal, a lion, tied up (8)
32 It will show just how big
a rise you’ve had (8) 33 Went through the
exercises, bored (7) 35 Very much afraid the
cavern will collapse (6) 36 A case, we’re told, of
flu (6)
37 Charm is man-bait (6)