CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Colour (5)

8 Of the nose (5) 10 Fertile spot (5) 11 Rend (3)

12 Take away (5) 13 Tooth type (7) 15 Flower part (5) 18 Shade of brown

(3)

19 Of cats (6) 21 Weariness (7) 22 Nefarious (4) 23 Large scale (4) 24 Army officer (7) 26 Boy’s name (6) 29 Groove (3) 31 Note value (5) 32 Natural

surroundings (7) 34 Polite,

courteous (5) 35 Pen part (3) 36 Lustre (5) 37 Warehouse (5) 38 Edge along (5)

DOWN

1 Farm buildings

(5)

2 Metropolis (7) 4 Legal

successor (4) 5 Hairpiece (6) 6 Artist’s stand (5) 7 Backless sofa

(5)

9 So or thus (3) 12 Name or

nickname (7) 14 Was seated (3) 16 Of tides (5) 17 Rental contract

(5)

19 Burial or

cremation (7) 20 Broom of twigs

(5)

21 Make time or

space for (3,2) 23 Afternoon show

(7)

24 Star sign (6)

25 Chafe (3)

27 Of little weight

(5)

28 Gripping tools

(5)

30 Wooden shoe (5) 32 Tor (4) 33 Gratuity (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Snappy contribution from Murphy? (5)

8 Where to shoot a vehicle out of a race (5) 10 Where Americans get cross when drinks are interrupted (5) 11 Don’t allow extra decoration (3)

12 He can make

the grade (5) 13 Shorten the

crossing (7) 15 Historic mines around central Whitechapel (5) 18 Many an own goal by one of the Rovers (3) 19 Like the effort by everyone supporting the strike (3-3) 21 Gas with me and an old bigwig (7) 22 Makes low

noises (4) 23 Gregory, perhaps, joined by a lesser actor in London (4)

24 United with the right one in a dream set-up (7) 26 Moved upon seeing a strange dove with the tail of a thrush? (6) 29 As mined in

Korea? (3) 31 Can she wail

alluringly? (5) 32 Entertaining purveyor of nonsense at the end of the pier? (7)

34 Said to have stayed sober (5)

35 A United Kingdom flier (3)

36 Writer who always had a plot (5)

37 She nags restlessly about an early start (5)

38 Can this zodiacal sign mean birds? (5) DOWN

1 Vessel getting past, broad in the beam (5)

2 In Australia,

worn steps (7) 4 A trip on the line in red, possibly (4) 5 Such a diet presumably has iron in it (6) 6 Threat by the

Italian (5) 7 Language of a social worker in hearty rebuke (5) 9 Jack’s grateful

utterance (3) 12 Intellectual, possibly hard boiled leader (7) 14 Little girl, so how can she be in her dotage? (3)

16 Managed to

catch a boy (5) 17 Minced steak?

You bet! (5) 19 In making such a barometer, an emperor had to help out (7) 20 Just one failure

is wrong (5) 21 Drive in the open country around central Austria (5) 23 Look to grow old in an ennobling way (7) 24 He advises soldiers to finish war (6) 25 An heiress’s

displeasure (3) 27 Silly rhyme,

not plain (5) 28 Heavenly figure on a broken seat (5)

30 He’s a card! (5) 32 Fortune made by one sort of driver (4) 33 Maybe an extra bit of exercise (3)