CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

3 Board game (5) 8 Of the nose (5) 10 Provincial (5) 11 Brief swim (3) 12 Royal (5) 13 Sunshade (7) 15 Unspoken (5) 18 Sleeping place

(3)

19 Great fear (6) 21 Defrauds,

swindles (7) 22 Fever (4) 23 Farmyard birds

(4) 24 Everlasting (7) 26 Faints (6) 29 Petty lie (3) 31 Reddish dye (5) 32 Planet (7) 34 Urge on (5) 35 Toddler (3) 36 Cost (5) 37 Canoe (5) 38 Exclusive (5)

DOWN

1 Aircraft detection system (5) 2 Competent (7) 4 Shoe part (4) 5 Roof tiles (6) 6 Of the sun (5) 7 Proportion (5) 9 Knight’s title (3) 12 Mice, say (7) 14 Observe (3) 16 Inhumane (5) 17 Faith (5) 19 Inclined to cry

(7)

20 Draconian (5) 21 Japanese

padded quilt (5) 23 Natural surroundings (7)

24 Tooth covering

(6)

25 Pinch (3) 27 Eerie (5)

28 In abeyance,

pending (2,3) 30 Flower part (5) 32 Joke (4) 33 Plaything (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 and 8. At Wembley Central, possible wrapper on a parcel (5,5) 8 See “3”

10 An Italian in a

right state! (5) 11 Hot air used

for heating? (3) 12 When ordered, I can’t shut up! (3,2) 13 Classic

horseman! (7) 15 Far from hot tip Ed misunderstood (5)

18 An angle I had

to cover? (3) 19 Maybe ma sees it’s a sort of seed (6) 21 In the hills, chaps take lucky chances (7)

22 Set in some suitably cut diamonds (4) 23 Satisfied to accept a pound and be less frigid (4) 24 “No” to seal

fur? (7)

26 Due to credit, was in debt but was boastful (6) 29 What you may have to pay, thanks to getting cross (3) 31 Has to go round again with the runners (5) 32 Examination of the decimal system (7) 34 Revealed a matted beard (5)

35 In summarising, make a mess of (3)

36 To be honest with you, it’s flat (5)

37 For the green player, two is a suitable number (5)

38 Author always short of readers (5)

DOWN

1 Makes war for years on the Western Front (5) 2 Sent astray, shown the way, settled down to lay? (7)

4 That of the crowd at a Lions’ match? (4)

5 and 6. Compos

es music? (6,5) 6 See “5”

7 Mum figures

it’s a motto (5) 9 Peter’s saucy

surname (3) 12 Fondly held to be a loved one (7)

14 Scots own a

certain part (3) 16 The piece of glass left is usually rectangular (5)

17 Mark Twain referred to it with profundity (5)

19 Given out, rushed around and rabbited on (7) 20 Well held, sir?

(5)

21 No major piece of work for a minister (5) 23 At most, the

ceiling (7) 24 Only a third of

the RPM (6) 25 How unhappy are the half of us half dead! (3)

27 A model carer, being new, is not slow (5) 28 We’re wrong about Bach initially being a composer! (5)

30 Artful lot of

politicians? (5) 32 Repair men coming on Dec 1st (4) 33 Short listed as a spiteful woman (3)