CROSSWORD
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)