CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Bear-like mammal (5) 8 Wild (5) 10 Upright (2,3) 11 Close friend (3) 12 Incorrect (5) 13 Country (7) 15 Warning of danger (5) 18 Rend (3) 19 Hi-fi (6) 21 Stillness (7) 22 Chrysalis (4) 23 Crossbow arrow (4) 24 Non-metallic element (7) 26 Small cupboard (6) 29 Hill (3) 31 Hairdresser’s shop (5) 32 Pinchpenny (7) 34 Reasoned thought (5) 35 Falsehood (3) 36 In motion (5) 37 Tired, worn out (5) 38 Challenges (5) DOWN

1 Warehouse (5) 2 Mosquito-bite disease (7) 4 Atmosphere (4) 5 Give (6) 6 Corner (5) 7 Boy’s name (5) 9 Tup (3) 12 Destroy completely (4,3) 14 Nothing (3) 16 Mistake (5) 17 Molar, say (5) 19 Unbeliever (7) 20 Glasses (5) 21 Bobbin (5) 23 Housebreaker (7) 24 Married Spanish woman (6) 25 Domesticated pig (3) 27 Lariat (5) 28 Compact (5) 30 Clean feathers (5) 32 Famous river (4) 33 Assist (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 By getting a blockhead out of a hellish hole (5) 8 It takes a good man to manoeuvre a boat round Beachy Head (5) 10 In service, volunteers to back six vehicles (5) 11 Dismissed, having been caught? (3) 12 Explorer who had to return by taxi? (5) 13 Terrible allergy cured in fine style (7) 15 Was quick to get an account into the red (5) 18 It’s grassy in a cattle area (3) 19 She has no right to be in the water (6) 21 Almost solely arranged by the college head (7) 22 Light and excellent to the very end (4) 23 Norwegian style of loaf (4) 24 Again to cry out for a home for a good man (7) 26 Work companion for Rose, possibly (6) 29 Couldn’t fail to get caught (3) 31 Nonsense it’s alright to sing about (5) 32 Not a player, but he has his cards (7) 34 Now’s not the time to spill tea left and right! (5) 35 A fabulous flier, one imagines (3) 36 Composer who confused beer with whiskey (5) 37 There’s nothing animated about her (5) 38 Slips with dizzy head into a wild kiss (5) DOWN

1 Notes get blown out of them (5) 2 To agree entirely (7) 4 Asinine utterance (4) 5 Floor of an emporium with early closing (6) 6 Old Harry was seated on one (5) 7 It serves a confusing purpose (5) 9 Pest, maybe, but a good listener? (3) 12 Conflicts involving many blows (7) 14 Name of a voluble orator (3) 16 Charlie sounds unctuous in a modest way (5) 17 To be like a little flower, it seems, is silly (5) 19 To be snakelike was Hitler’s undoing (7) 20 Be wary of a hunter, maybe (5) 21 Villainous Aussie bounder in the outskirts of Cork (5) 23 Tidy as an officer, maybe (7) 24 One made about an Evangelist? (6) 25 Loutish fellow, but capable of a change (3) 27 Hang about craftily? (5) 28 Draws the line as a lawmaker? (5) 30 Depreciate after I’m gone? (5) 32 Learn about a “for sale” notice (4) 33 Winnie-thePooh’s associate rhymester (3)