CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Ordered piles

(6)

7 Sweat (8) 8 German man

(4)

10 Weekday (6) 11 Continent (6) 14 Manipulate

fraudulently (3) 16 Iron, for

example (5) 17 Fat used in

cooking (4) 19 Two-footed

animal (5) 21 Concentrate

(5) 22 Leguminous

plant (5) 23 Impetuous (4) 26 Command (5) 28 Congeal (3) 29 Border (6) 30 Fuel gas (6) 31 Burden (4) 32 Card game

(3,5) 33 Scorched (6)

DOWN

1 Mocks (6) 2 Belief (6) 3 Nimble (4) 4 Presupposes

(7)

5 Fulcrum (5) 6 Insurgent (5) 8 Employ (4) 9 Torn cloth (3) 12 Colour (3) 13 Chessmen (5) 15 Lawful (5) 18 Extreme (5) 19 Dance,

informally (3) 20 Play on words

(3)

21 Raging (7) 22 Limb (3)

23 Go back (6) 24 Unfortunately

(4)

25 Took notice

of (6)

26 Greek letter

(5)

27 Male bee (5) 28 Weapon (3) 30 Young males (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Fool around for a quarter hour in the bathroom (6) 7 Conventional piece of work, a book about the North (8) 8 Henry left the

building (4) 10 In the position to plead wildly, keeping a cool head (6)

11 With hearty Jethroe, I have to do well (6) 14 It doesn’t quite rate being petted (3) 16 Heavy reading

(5)

17 Finds the total for the drinks (4)

19 Will Halley’s arrive on Tuesday? (5) 21 Stormed, to Edgar’s distress (5)

22 There’s risk for the raw beginner in making a pile (5)

23 Dad’s mid-century history (4) 26 Accommodatingly provide with meals (5) 28 A fair WPC?

(3)

29 Awaiting

delivery (6) 30 A form of protection, that’s clear (6) 31 The beast would seem to claim to be ten (4) 32 Hybridising a zebra with a pelican? (8) 33 Smooth stuff (6)

DOWN

1 Flabby and a bit wet, it clings to a rock (6) 2 Squabble, reversing a car in furious extremities (6) 3 Keep below

decks (4)

4 The opposite of wronged? (7) 5 Nominally a

large figure (5) 6 Impressive

characters? (5) 8 Wild animal that gets right into your straw, possibly (4) 9 Occupied in wholesale trade (3)

12 Tommy’s tosh?

(3)

13 Exotic vines apt to bleed when cut (5) 15 Rationale shown in the record, I see (5) 18 On line to get ahead with something Spanish? (5) 19 To buy it, must one be in credit? (3) 20 Homely part for

Mr. Gibson (3) 21 If you want compensation, put your clothes on again (7) 22 In favour of getting fit for personal advantage (3) 23 Strong temporary shelter by the river (6) 24 Top copy with a

cross on (4) 25 Artist who gave name to a bird (6)

26 Toughly aggressive, but with honour (5)

27 He’s good to give a seaman half a bottle (5) 28 Taxi bureau?

(3)

30 They’re too porky to get airborne (4)