CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Pushed (6) 7 Complete (8) 8 Multitude (4) 10 Garden shrub
(6) 11 Mysterious (6) 14 Contend (3) 16 Musical sounds
(5)
17 Paradise (4) 19 Hoodwinked
(5)
21 Raid, inroad (5) 22 Filleted (5) 23 Better than
good (4)
26 Tag (5)
28 Unit of weight
(3)
29 Primary source
(6)
30 Fairies, elves
(6)
31 Corrosive
substance (4) 32 Shinto, for
example (8) 33 Pantihose (6)
DOWN
1 Comfort (6) 2 Stringed
instrument (6) 3 Info (4) 4 Voyage (7) 5 Former gold
coin (5) 6 Yields (5) 8 Possess (4) 9 Observe (3) 12 Fish (3) 13 Approaches
(5)
15 Heals (5) 18 Exclude (5) 19 Put on (3) 20 Residence,
informally (3) 21 Leaves of a
plant (7) 22 Beseech (3) 23 Pugilism (6)
24 Girl’s name (4) 25 Chucks (6) 26 Truck (5)
27 Holy book (5) 28 Facial twitch (3) 30 Gasp (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 An engineer of towering reputation (6) 7 Formally kill the wild boar at the field entrance (8)
8 Not exactly town
dress? (4) 10 Became more sociable, needing a new hat to get married (6) 11 The man composed a song (6) 14 Permitted a degree of doubletalk (3) 16 Appetising, being of Rita’s type (5) 17 Animal of retrograde breeding? (4) 19 Being whirled, roughly speaking, its goes round (5) 21 Group of fliers bashful about a day of victory (5)
22 Pulled or kicked out of the way (5)
23 Come across and congregate (4)
26 I’m not possibly associable with Athens (5)
28 It could be the
one with sun (3) 29 Enthusiastic about centralisation? (6) 30 Sort of canoe an old soldier may remember (6)
31 Violently separated; but again, not loveless (4) 32 Heading for the nineteenth hole? (2,6) 33 Weaken, having
hesitation (6)
DOWN
1 Excited, robbed of a century, departed from the scene (6) 2 Best of the
bunch? (6) 3 Real property,
money also (4) 4 How the
butchers went into business? (7)
5 Brief study? (5) 6 Cracksman’s
companion (5) 8 Good beer goes like the wind! (4)
9 For such days, we need a perfect ending (3)
12 Most data is wrong, just a little (3) 13 Study of
French? (5) 15 Many finished at the seaside (5)
18 He’s said to be in current circulation (5) 19 Being a success, is apt to take a bow (3)
20 Looking embarrassed, having only three of the letters (3) 21 Relief for a civic leader on tour (7)
22 High point of an
oratorio (3) 23 Something like
a horseshoe (6) 24 A sound eight watchable from the river bank (4)
25 Stagger like an old junk man? (6)
26 Pulsating way to
make broth (5) 27 Game involving
a striker? (5) 28 Expected a nobleman to lose a kilo (3) 30 Extracted moisture outright! (4)