Bangkok Post

CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Men’s hairdresse­r (6) 7 Spectator, onlooker (8) 8 Food fish (4) 10 Subsided (6) 11 Submissive (6) 14 Rent out property (3) 16 Manservant (5) 17 Mimics (4) 19 Thin candle (5) 21 Lubricated (5) 22 Colour (5) 23 Merge (4) 26 Listlessne­ss (5) 28 Swindle (3) 29 Loll (6) 30 Social outcast (6) 31 Nagging, informally (2,2) 32 All time to come (8) 33 Threefold (6)

DOWN

1 Fruit (6) 2 Beasts (6) 3 Thoroughfa­re (4) 4 Dear (7) 5 Be of use (5) 6 Welcome (5) 8 Story (4) 9 Mesh (3) 12 Drive this (3) 13 Jumps (5) 15 Cardiff’s country (5) 18 Musical instrument (5) 19 Drawn match (3) 20 Female swan (3) 21 Art of paper folding (7) 22 Weapon (3) 23 Rummage about (6) 24 Single entity (4) 25 Breathe out (6) 26 Senior (5) 27 Naked figures (5) 28 Container (3) 30 Bard (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Old harridans getting round a soldier for some pudding (6) 7 When there’s occasion to attack, this can be dangerous (4,4) 8 Able to return to a place of exile (4) 10 One who sells dear, perhaps, in extremes of terror (6) 11 House mice could see it as a popular pear (6) 14 Put down some mousetraps (3) 16 Town water (5) 17 Coloured, turbulent eddy (4) 19 Bombed by a deranged duke at central Greenwich (5) 21 Revealed as hard-hearted in a plot (5) 22 A childish beast (5) 23 The place for fatheaded old bleaters? (4) 26 Courage shown by the artist (5) 28 Dad has half of it ready (3) 29 Shaggy native of South America (6) 30 How petals can change colour (6) 31 A voice of regal tone (4) 32 The lesser charge (5,3) 33 Poet’s name for chorea, possibly (6)

DOWN

1 Suggested the din could be modified (6) 2 Like a cage rather than a lily (6) 3 Sunny celebrity? (4) 4 Taken away when you slip into the red (7) 5 In Roman numerals, nothing is funny (5) 6 Irish theatre in a London “Wood”! (5) 8 A life of this may not totally please (4) 9 Elizabeth’s little flutter (3) 12 Figures among the pyramids (3) 13 The cold a companion gets sick of (5) 15 The poet yearns for a rhyme (5) 18 Sing in ye old style (5) 19 Grandmothe­r’s girl(3) 20 A piano piece? (3) 21 Noted batsman good at making cuts (7) 22 What a brainy women has, if she hasn’t burnt it (3) 23 Quicker to make a fatheaded bloomer (6) 24 Nominally he’s in the bottom class (4) 25 Pull into the river, where there’s a lot of water (6) 26 Suitable, very soft covering of hay (5) 27 Annual interest, one pound! (5) 28 Drink up like a dog, so named (3) 30 The way to make a soft blow hard (4)

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