CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Ballroom dance
(3-3)
7 Buying and
selling (8) 8 Long narrow
mark (4) 10 Tolerates (6) 11 Give delight
to (6) 14 Encountered (3) 16 Evaluates (5) 17 Fingerprints (4) 19 Boy’s name (5) 21 All-night watch
(5)
22 Jeans fabric (5) 23 Hereditary
unit (4) 26 Automaton (5) 28 Standard (3) 29 In agreement
(6)
30 Thrifty (6) 31 Company
emblem (4) 32 Admission (8) 33 Religious
festival (6)
DOWN
1 Craven (6) 2 Scolds (6) 3 Experts (4) 4 Endanger (7) 5 Delightful
surprise (5) 6 Yields (5) 8 Arm, for
example (4) 9 Mesh (3) 12 Household fuel
(3)
13 Fruit (5) 15 Reasoned
thought (5) 18 Pinafore (5) 19 Rubbish
container (3) 20 Raised edge
(3)
21 Old soldier (7) 22 Speck (3)
23 Measures,
estimates (6) 24 Therefore (4) 25 Cream cake (6) 26 Measuring stick
(5)
27 Act of being
born (5)
28 In favour of (3) 30 Run away (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 The opening where you turn for the town centre (6)
7 Be slow to show abhorrence about fancy ties (8)
8 Sounds like the total, but isn’t (4)
10 Point to a chap
called Jack (6) 11 Did one’s best to influence voters (6) 14 Tolerate with
constraint (3) 16 Reach maturity and readiness to scoff? (5) 17 Born on the first of December, in poverty (4) 19 Form of darts one is lucky to play (5)
21 I leave oil on
her car (5) 22 Glutted with
dates (5) 23 Many a politician is a bit wet (4) 26 Quoted by some ‘tec’ in the CID (5) 28 Just the man to make hay? (3) 29 At a broken date, he gets angry (6)
30 A plant in the form of a glove (6)
31 A cat can mean
very little (4) 32 Handy
restrictions (8) 33 Priest making a name in a high place (6)
DOWN
1 The row brewing over foreign currency won’t improve things (6)
2 Fated to work on a new Dome! (6)
3 Time to arrest the flow of drink, say (4) 4 Wind and bad visibility taken to the Australians’ heart (7) 5 New ‘soap’ about the heart of England (historic Shropshire) (5) 6 Very young to be so loveless still (5)
8 Goods are
offered for it (4) 9 It’s of some material, possibly protective (3) 12 The right I had
to be free (3) 13 It will do you no good to move mistakenly out of neutral (5) 15 Scatter food
outright! (5) 18 He gives noted service, that is (5)
19 Rested on the
bottom (3) 20 Nominally the part of Aphrodite (3) 21 The intonation with which no gentleman finishes a sentence? (7) 22 Prepare for action (e.g., some mousetraps) (3) 23 Apply some term to the wild dove (6) 24 But you would know him from Eve! (4) 25 Would he have arrested a stripper? (6) 26 Is he silly to start climbing on a camel’s back? (5) 27 Infection making a tint possibly visible (5)
28 Drink, child (3) 30 Keep going to the end of the queue (4)