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

3 Rescues (5) 8 Kind, category

(5)

10 Water nymph (5) 11 Pen part (3) 12 Trite (5)

13 Hand over (7) 15 Mannequin (5) 18 Shade of brown

(3)

19 Indicate,

designate (6) 21 African country

(7)

22 Jetty (4)

23 Golf pegs (4) 24 Laughs

nervously (7) 26 Aver (6) 29 Meadow (3) 31 Topic (5) 32 Sauce type (7) 34 Foundation (5) 35 Spicy (3) 36 Melodies (5) 37 One with

leprosy (5) 38 Spools (5)

DOWN

1 Belief (5) 2 Referee (7) 4 Slightly open (4) 5 Tooth covering

(6) 6 Hairdressi­ng

shop (5) 7 Manservant (5) 9 Nothing (3) 12 Advantage (7) 14 Vehicle (3) 16 Peace birds (5) 17 Rental contract

(5)

19 Hangs freely (7) 20 Fish (5) 21 Perceive (5) 23 Tutor (7) 24 Thick oil (6) 25 Permit (3) 27 Holler (5) 28 Cinder (5)

30 External (5) 32 Slay (4) 33 Jump on one

foot (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 What to wear when you leave the car with heavy heart (5) 8 Shoot the rotten

prigs! (5) 10 British ones are

insular (5) 11 Would he make a hearty crony? (3)

12 Dirtiest part of the Solar System (5) 13 On these, there’s a fair chance of bumping into people (7) 15 Tries some of the latest styles (5)

18 Such a dog will evidently take a drink! (3) 19 The hiring of a theatre in the “legitimate” sense (6)

21 Ran out with

the boys (7) 22 Sharpen by putting each end in water (4) 23 Like a piper with a following (4)

24 At school, youngster useful with a computer (7) 26 Racehorse that finishes up after all the others (6)

29 Pull from the

East! (3) 31 It’s cold, alas, back at Land’s End (5)

32 A fault that makes me tired (7)

34 More than 1,000 keys all jumbled up (5)

35 There’s little change in one (3)

36 Public availabili­ty of back numbers (5)

37 Growing need for a six-footer to go to church (5)

38 Noble ground?

(5)

DOWN

1 A newcomer in “Pilgrim’s Progress” (5) 2 Allowed to perform in just a vest (7)

4 A girl mentioned

with regret (4) 5 If you want to be equipped, out with it! (6) 6 Pale as a female with no love lost (5)

7 A match for

Lucifer? (5) 9 Boy to go fishing with? (3)

12 Like Nero, he could destroy much of Rome, perhaps (7) 14 Take down in

person (3)

16 A unit in flight

(5)

17 Slip it into the

projector (5) 19 Trotted out,

so to speak (7) 20 Makes a change from wasps! (5)

21 A bit of a

bloomer (5) 23 In a seedy case, were given authority (7) 24 He may treat you patiently (6)

25 Uncle’s cat?

(3)

27 Was it spoken in pieces of broken Italian? (5)

28 Asian people rising in sublimatio­n (5) 30 The snag about

a free ride (5) 32 An act heartlessl­y denied (4) 33 Regret moving on from Rouen (3)

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