CROSSWORD

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

ACROSS

4 Holy (6) 7 Beekeeper (8) 8 Handsome

youth (6) 10 Quench, allay

(5)

13 Make beer (4) 14 Brave man (4) 15 Greek letter (4) 16 Cooker top (3) 17 Precipitation

(4)

19 Entrance (4) 21 Sugar pea (9) 23 Not short (4) 24 Baptismal bowl

(4)

26 Faucet (3) 27 Leave out (4) 29 Style, vigour

(4)

32 Unruly child (4) 33 First-rate (5) 34 Say again (6) 35 Guess (8) 36 Tempests (6)

DOWN

1 Low-lying watery

land (5) 2 Cheroot, say (5) 3 Gratis (4) 4 Begin (5)

5 Bird (4) 6 Newspaper

boss (6) 9 Exactly right

(4,2) 11 Hawaiian

garland (3) 12 Holy book (5) 13 Advantage (7) 15 Large (3) 16 Spicy (3) 18 Mohair (6) 20 External (5) 21 Cleaning item

(3)

22 Toddler (3) 23 Bewail (6) 25 Bad actor (3) 28 Friends (5)

30 Pale mauve

colour (5) 31 At no time (5) 32 Alcoholic drink

(4)

33 Bucket (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

4 Have they family significance for a child at the riverside? (6) 7 As worn by an admirer close to Capulet’s heart? (8)

8 Is territory of insular nature (6)

10 Shouts about the rats running out of the Nag’s Head (5)

13 A sound white

bucket (4)

14 A girl has a

metal one (4) 15 Variety of oil for

a lamp? (4) 16 Be not alone in

Bucharest! (3) 17 He appears in

an instant (4) 19 Villain fancied to have a consuming interest in humanity (4) 21 Begins drowning rats in beer! (6,3)

23 Venison, potentially, sounds expensive (4) 24 In residence, he’s out of order (4) 26 Figure to achieve a net return (3) 27 Three out of

thirteen (4) 29 Disappointing cash advance out of a financial centre (4) 32 A couple of

ducks (4) 33 Speak for the

nation (5) 34 Youngsters writing about wrought iron (6) 35 Sign of a high-flying team shuffling into church (4,4) 36 Lively letter to

“28 Down” (6)

DOWN

1 In the tropics, I see such fun larking around! (5)

2 Think of a Miller, and you may get Close (5) 3 Arguably a fifty-fifty chance (4) 4 Legal proceedings due to the rail crash at the end of August (5)

5 William may spill the beans (4)

6 The waste of earthy richness (6)

9 Being windy, Simon fails to finish an order (6)

11 Style of haircut!

(3)

12 Try to make the “West” End “East”, possibly! (5) 13 Animal, possibly

part hen (7) 15 The figure that’s

right for dad (3) 16 Fine piece of earthenware? (3)

18 Jack, we repeat, is a fierce fellow (6)

20 He’s a stayer, as one may have guessed (5)

21 Money changed

in Indonesia (3) 22 So, at the very end, we get some sort of sauce (3)

23 One who refuses to state his weight? (6) 25 Not on? Not

in! (3) 28 Dangerous fathead from “36 Across” (5) 30 Little men in

South Africa (5) 31 Sharp character

(5)

32 Not exactly lots

of money? (4) 33 She married Noah’s eldest son (4)