CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

4 Diction (6) 7 Near (8) 8 Feline (6) 10 Deadly (5) 13 Unusual (4) 14 Pitcher (4) 15 Roofing slate (4) 16 Favourite (3) 17 Cleaning agent (4) 19 Paradise (4) 21 Competitor (9) 23 Finished (4) 24 Bird’s home (4) 26 Energy (3) 27 Sharpen (4) 29 Give out (4) 32 Praise (4) 33 Wife (5) 34 Postpones (6) 35 Marsupial (8) 36 Church room (6)

DOWN

1 Social blunder (5) 2 Malice (5) 3 Implement (4) 4 Group of fish (5) 5 Fencing sword (4) 6 Selected (6) 9 Beliefs (6) 11 Wonder (3) 12 Fire-raising (5) 13 Matured (7) 15 Rubbish (3) 16 For every (3) 18 Unidirectional (3-3) 20 Dissuade (5) 21 Policeman (3) 22 Mesh (3) 23 Cross out (6) 25 Offer (3) 28 Sled dog (5) 30 Bishop’s headdress (5) 31 Type of saw (5) 32 Final (4) 33 Insects (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

4 New hostel for the humble (6) 7 Again, a bit of an act when there are coppers around (8) 8 Make a disclosure concerning meat (6) 10 Fat means nothing to wild bees (5) 13 Be shifty when you can’t pay the rent? (4) 14 Raffish angle? (4) 15 Claimant to being doggedly faithful (4) 16 Lad twice in prison for arson (3) 17 Great times when with royalty (4) 19 Not mentioned by granny, perhaps (4) 21 Pump action (9) 23 Jumps all over the shop (4) 24 Sticky perches? (4) 26 Such a lot means little! (3) 27 Perform a song at the piano (4) 29 Sailors moving somewhat to starboard? (4) 32 For me, it’s nearly all on a plate (4) 33 One of those shiny long stockings (5) 34 Thinks seriously about children (6) 35 Time for a regular diet, possibly? (8) 36 Trouble a couple to the bitter end (6)

DOWN

1 Not genuine money for a spare part (5) 2 We show the French around town (5) 3 Familiar name for a favourite sweetheart (4) 4 King who started out among the common people (5) 5 It’s quite different from a degree of malevolence (4) 6 A vessel to top up with drink (6) 9 Conjured up with good heart (6) 11 The little that sank in (3) 12 Famous followers (5) 13 Alarmists, at heart, may naturally be windy (7) 15 Well up in the RAF (3) 16 A drinker, thus starting or finishing tight (3) 18 Spoke harshly of a killer in red (6) 20 Sat around in New York being abusive (5) 21 Like a hou se with central heating (3) 22 Youthful body lacking a definite leader (3) 23 A heady style (6) 25 To make money, he needs to get fit (3) 28 The light of modern development? (5) 30 Chap from Spitalfields (5) 31 With disdain, look both ways always (5) 32 Test the breath of a flier (4) 33 A cat’s lives, it seems, are like a dog’s tail (4)