Crossword

USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

9 Yuletide (9) 10 Observable things (9) 12 Single entity (4) 13 Debris (6)

14 Watered down (7) 15 Residue (9)

17 Dare (9)

18 Temporal (7)

19 Edible tuber (6) 20 Cooking fat (4) 23 Small sausage (9) 25 Sullied (9)

26 Require (4)

27 Plot (6)

29 Vocalists (7) 32 Impudence (9) 34 Inundate (9)

35 French country house

(7)

36 Prizes, medals, etc.

(6)

37 At a great distance (4) 38 Disregarded (9) 39 Imposing (9)

DOWN

1 Obtains (8) 2 One-armed bandit (5,7) 3 Burn feebly (8) 4 Weather map line (6) 5 Boxing blow (8)

6 Senior teacher (10) 7 Sophisticated (7) 8 Realistic (4-6) 11 Consumed (5)

16 Ice houses (6)

19 Small green vegetable

(3)

21 Fungal complaint (8,4) 22 Small fish (6)

23 Cogent (10)

24 Stress (10)

25 Golf peg (3)

28 Green gemstones (8) 29 Motorcycle sport (8) 30 English county (8) 31 Inactive spy (7)

33 Jargon (5) 34 Citrus fruit (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Accepted the position,

as it happened (4,5) 10 Has a flirtation - and doesn’t stop at that (7,2)

12 A teeny bit upset by

the facts (4)

13 In its stead, I have

fish (6)

14 What will it do if it

catches a fly? (7) 15 Slight possibility that you won’t be working? (3,6)

17 So is on the spot with

the van (9)

18 Allows that one is in

pain (7)

19 Are these trainees

little bounders? (6) 20 In English and French

says “Revise it” (4) 23 Submitted to the

current editor (9)

25 The meter he can do

without (9)

26 It’s not turning the key that makes the sound (4)

27 Briefed on the first

day (6)

29 They warn us the lady’s also backed into it (7)

32 Neither do we gain by changing nationality (9)

34 Drive in France (9) 35 Like the girl who’s coming first in the charm competition? (7)

36 Moves quickly and tries

to catch the ball (6) 37 Flash a smile (4) 38 Make a copy for and make it smaller all round (9)

39 Assume Daniel is

working in the plant (9)

DOWN

1 Working hard at the workshop ourselves (8)

2 Ages of the tennis-playing mother and daughter? (5,7) 3 Faults responsible for one’s being ploughed in the exam? (8)

4 Give up work again:

get fed up with it (6) 5 Taken to be the done

thing (8) 6 “Be a Gold-digger”: an American brochure (10)

7 The awful pair returned, determined on becoming thieves (7) 8 Have more sense than to become further acquainted with (4,6) 11 A number also being worried about multiple firings (5)

16 Having leant over, he had grabbed the fish (6)

19 Fish caught do wriggle

(3)

21 Frantic attempt made when a lot is hanging in the balance? (9,3) 22 Again forcing me

to be aloof (6) 23 Very briefly, help with the compilation of the lexicon (3,2,1,4) 24 Proving, by the

expulsion of (7,3) 25 He’s no good at

reversing, either (3) 28 At home when the gentleman comes round: a politician (8) 29 Having passed over, going back to again (8)

30 It ends stirringly, with me captured in the grounds (8)

31 By five one’s in, cooking

the meat (7)

33 For the trip north,

fly (3,2)

34 Light left on, get into

the unmade bed (6)