CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
4 Eastern ruler (6) 7 Group of letters
(8)
8 Bacon slice (6) 10 Melting snow (5) 13 Coarse file (4) 14 Ballet skirt (4) 15 No votes (4) 16 Embrace (3) 17 Celebrity (4) 19 Fencing sword
(4) 21 Woodworker (9) 23 Fish (4) 24 Employer (4) 26 Sphere (3) 27 Empty (4) 29 Stumble (4) 32 Curved (4) 33 Willow (5) 34 Wall paintings
(6)
35 Large retail
shop (8)
36 Fine mortar (6)
DOWN
1 Body part (5) 2 Nozzle (5) 3 Ready money (4) 4 Homeless dog
(5)
5 Speech defect
(4)
6 Broad street (6) 9 Valuable things
(6)
11 Drag with effort
(3)
12 Girl’s name (5) 13 Welsh rabbit (7) 15 Doze (3)
16 That woman (3) 18 See the world
(6)
20 Nuisances (5) 21 Young fox (3) 22 Signal
agreement (3) 23 Company of
actors (6) 25 Falsehood (3)
28 Beginning (5) 30 Stiff (5) 31 First-rate (5) 32 Bottom,
foundation (4) 33 Musical
instrument (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 4 Authorises walls to be built around a circuit (6)
7 Job opportunities for beginners? (8) 8 Play about a dissolute bar at the seaside (6) 10 Is quick to get a grasp of things (5)
13 Tear somewhat
horrendously (4) 14 A fearful cry of “OW”, perhaps? (4)
15 Unpolluted water at the deep end (4) 16 Money, for instance, as support (3) 17 A noted water barrier near Amsterdam (4) 19 The letters one left for mother (4)
21 Something Brian came boozily to splice? (9) 23 Was a pig thrust
in one? (4) 24 Fabric used by a hospital intern (4)
26 He’s hardly the finished lady’s man (3)
27 Put your foot
down (4) 29 The burden on
the States (4) 32 Scrawny person with a small figure (4) 33 Allowance a grandmother gets on Tuesday (5)
34 The people around the pubs (6)
35 Acid description of a fierce fellow, I see (8) 36 Annual appeal
for help (6)
DOWN
1 My accommodating a duck, a horse and a cat (5)
2 To be a leg man is not against the law (5) 3 Discrimination that upset some of the
Sabines (4)
4 It can grow at
various rates (5) 5 Not exactly the fat of the land (4)
6 In a beastly way,
we brew ales (6) 9 As a bandsman, he’s unique (3,3) 11 Fireplace
salesman? (3) 12 Depressing entry of water at the bulkhead (5)
13 Doctor ruled out when discovered (7) 15 All for a piper
(3)
16 Not all bullies are untruthful (3)
18 In Leeds perhaps, one needs no spark plugs (6) 20 Refractory
player? (5) 21 Youth associable
with cons (3) 22 Dissolute character, evidently fast (3)
23 Bung money as partial consolation ?(6) 25 Manage to get a ruling head to join a union (3) 28 Mostly set up and easily upset (5) 30 Scottish town with terrible rain to the north (5)
31 What’s in store?
(5)
32 One guarded when there’s fighting at Land’s End (4) 33 Get a system for entering the field (4)