CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Card game (5) 8 Merchandise (5) 10 Eerie (5) 11 Boy’s name (3) 12 Girl’s name (5) 13 Shortage (7) 15 Cause the ruin
of (2,3) 18 Decompose (3) 19 Tranquil (6) 21 Subtitle (7) 22 Jumper material
(4)
23 Ballet skirt (4) 24 Obscure (7) 26 Perspires (6) 29 Excess flesh
(3)
31 Ballroom dance
(5)
32 Causing
distress (7) 34 Month (5) 35 Illuminated (3) 36 African mammal
(5)
37 Begin working
(3,2)
38 Artist’s stand
(5)
DOWN
1 Romantic
flowers (5) 2 Naval
commander (7) 4 Hotness (4) 5 Country (6) 6 Male voice (5) 7 Illegal burning
(5)
9 Dolt (3) 12 Young cats (7) 14 Policeman,
informally (3) 16 Thighbone (5) 17 Refute (5) 19 Showing deep
feeling (7) 20 Contort (5) 21 Group of
witches (5)
23 Gossip (7) 24 Ideal society (6) 25 Wheat spike (3) 27 Excursions on
foot (5) 28 Open-mouthed
(5)
30 Glazing paste
(5)
32 Conceal (4) 33 Seizure (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 The woman for many a man (5)
8 She’s a nut!
(5)
10 Finding the illuminations intoxicating? (3,2)
11 Get a hundred advanced by deceit (3) 12 Running tracks!
(5)
13 Dear me, shaken by the idealist’s rousing start! (7)
15 Gave one’s playmates a hand (5) 18 Container of
cabbages? (3) 19 A fairly normal
district (6) 21 Loose and fluttering -- free as a bird? (7) 22 Where to find some Irish heiresses (4) 23 Behind, due to a rare mix-up! (4)
24 Was worth making me tired (7) 26 Three good
contests (6) 29 Adversary of an RAF officer at a loose end (3) 31 A biblical character made her do wrong (5) 32 This vessel can possibly be in wood (7)
34 Copy the figures
(5)
35 Great little flier,
maybe (3)
36 To overreact seemed not quite nice to dad (5)
37 Not above breaking an elbow (5)
38 Was able to make a good rhyme (5)
DOWN
1 Lustrous greyish wild crane (5) 2 Suitable for holding (7) 4 How can a door
be this? (4)
5 It’s a long time for one to dally foolishly (3,3) 6 His meanness upsets me sir (5)
7 Targeted speculators? (5)
9 She’s like Joe, but not very pronouncedly (3) 12 Sumptuously entertains a chap with drinks (7)
14 She’s a
blossom (3) 16 Meant to get me to help out (5)
17 Unit of the Royal
Marines (5) 19 Certainly not the Ocean of Storms! (7) 20 Sound way to use a balance (5)
21 For him, the right share’s a long way out! (5)
23 Go in for unoriginality? (2-5)
24 Doc could be a bit of a comedian! (6) 25 Not up to
weight! (3) 27 That royal quality about a girl (5)
28 House with tailless mice? That’s funny! (5) 30 In part, he’ll
do (5) 32 Medicine that makes you sick on the quiet? (4)
33 To feel unwell
upsets Ali (3)