Crossword
USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT. EASY CLUES
ACROSS
8 Furniture item (4,3) 9 Perfect (9)
13 Creature (5)
14 Cuban dance (5) 15 Enterprise (7) 16 Japanese warriors (7) 17 Surpass (5)
18 New Zealand native (5) 20 Australian wild dog (5) 22 U.S. coin (6) 23 Connected to the
Internet (6)
25 Guess (7)
27 Verbatim (7) 30 Psychiatrist, informally
(6)
31 Protect (6)
32 Assumed name (5) 35 Dirt (5)
36 Correct (5)
37 Dull (7)
39 Notable success (7) 41 Light wood (5)
42 Male relative (5) 43 Superfluous (9)
44 Cut off (7)
DOWN
1 Platform (6)
2 Marsupial (8)
3 Give evidence (4,7) 4 Available jobs or rooms
(9)
5 Qualifications (1-6) 6 Cold dessert (10) 7 Biblical character (4) 10 Ill-used (6)
11 Bring an accusation
against (7)
12 Berate (6) 19 Paper-folding art (7) 21 Impartial (7) 24 Weatherproof coat (11) 26 Boiled sweet (4,6) 28 Femur (9) 29 Cold-blooded creature
(7)
30 Absence of danger (6) 32 Having a protective
cover (8)
33 Season (6)
34 Plants (7)
38 Wealth (6)
40 Article (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 Maintained I had got myself dressed to go out (7) 9 Understands guns won’t
shoot with them (7,2) 13 Should you say anything
(5)
14 The object is to get the
spare key (5)
15 Not one of the big bands popular in the Shirley Temple era (7) 16 Regard as a business
(7)
17 How many, about, will be in the container? (5)
18 Late - or earlier (5) 20 Drinks to go with the
pies I put out (5)
22 And snapped capturing
the outlaw (6)
23 Though sent off, kept
informed about (6) 25 Managed to get the wine you are searching for (7)
27 What luck and a lottery
ticket may get you (7) 30 Annoyed at being given
an anaesthetic (3,3) 31 The face shows a woman’s date of birth (6)
32 Talk of erasing us from
the records (5)
35 To change the heading
would be simple (5) 36 A promontory we
haven’t yet come to (5) 37 Is no longer forgotten
by fans (3-4)
39 Choose a single mother
as the best (7)
41 See the tot is playing a
game (5)
42 Push off and break
(5)
43 Buy something at a furniture shop within easy reach (3-2-4) 44 Rock, or stone, it is
embedded in (7)
DOWN
1 The bottle and tart,
leave inside (6) 2 Upright but lacking
drive (8)
3 Wreaking vengeance,
or recovering (7,4) 4 What Comte Dracula ordered on a hot day, with aplomb? (4-5) 5 Very embarrassed, clumsily alters a figure in it (7)
6 Only a person involved in Chinese cooking will use it (4,6)
7 Take in the dessert
(4)
10 It works like a charm and the boy goes up to bed (6)
11 Isn’t at work the day
before - far from it (7) 12 Kept from the sun,
taking to the shade (6) 19 Means the tin is defective, one concludes (7)
21 Talk while there’s time
left to talk about (7) 24 Experienced, had looked
at, one by one (4,7) 26 Plenty to eat at the Piazza Restaurant? (6,4)
28 A carnivorous plant?
(5,4)
29 Order, for the fellow,
fruit (7)
30 A good many stand by
the gun (6)
32 Very sorry, but it’s
uninhabited (8)
33 Poetry is kid stuff! (6) 34 Starts slicing a meat loaf found in the kitchen (7)
38 Wrests from the wild
cats (6)
40 That was you being
objective! (4)