CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS 1 Kidnapper’s
payment (6) 7 Puerile (8)
8 Fast aircraft
(4)
10 Entertains (6) 11 Hi-fi (6)
14 Father (3)
16 Go in (5) 17 Demonstrate
(4)
19 Without clothes
(5)
21 Enclose, confine
(3,2) 22 Unfashionable
(5)
23 Lord (4)
26 Small shoot or
twig (5) 28 Person’s residence, slang (3) 29 Saloon (6) 30 Myth (6) 31 Country (4) 32 A few (3,2,3) 33 Snuggle (6)
DOWN
1 Passes on (6) 2 Playground item
(6)
3 Fail to hit (4) 4 Cafeteria (7) 5 Two pints (5) 6 Spanish man
(5)
8 Martial art (4) 9 Boy’s name
(3)
12 Finish (3) 13 Weird (5) 15 Domesticates
(5) 18 Hippopotamus,
in short (5) 19 Mesh (3) 20 Tease or
deceive (3) 21 Gaunt (7) 22 Racket (3)
23 Heathens (6) 24 Paradise (4) 25 Large meshed
sieve (6) 26 Sailing vessel
(5)
27 Indian coin (5) 28 For every (3) 30 Big cat (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Level headed viper as opposed to a game snake (6)
7 Formerly superior look (4,4)
8 Dismiss a bigheaded bird (4)
10 Go, dissipated
varlet! (6) 11 Snappy drink?
(6)
14 A determined
attitude (3) 16 He’s just finished a new suit (5)
17 Deter heartless
beasts (4) 19 Poetic pigeon?
(5)
21 Desire to act as senior member (5) 22 Being saintly, he’ll help one (5)
23 Sunny maybe, but many say different (4) 26 Operatic series?
(5)
28 Standard spare
part (3)
29 Tease a companion for a sign of nerves? (6)
30 Quarter or half a garden (6)
31 Chooses spinning tops (4)
32 A writing
instrument? (8) 33 It’s danced in mute fashion (6)
DOWN
1 Salted, perhaps, didn’t go bad (6)
2 He took the herd right into port (6)
3 The neat thing to do with some brollies (4)
4 Be told the figure that will encourage you (7)
5 The occasion
when a woman goes to the theatre (5) 6 Horses said to
graze (5) 8 Where serviceman can’t get much lower? (4)
9 You get it on
bath night (3) 12 Music all about
us (3) 13 Unintelligent
pacifier (5) 15 A lory, wild, is really impressive (5)
18 A member’s middling part (5)
19 Is not expected to drop a brick (3)
20 In Rome, naturally, may be Italian (3) 21 See and possibly rescind (7)
22 Fit for a tango round the piano (3)
23 He lost his head in the French Revolution (6)
24 Skills in heart
surgery (4) 25 Turning into a tester, troublesomely (6)
26 Bit of a maelstrom, perhaps (5) 27 ‘Enry’s dropped
it! (5)
28 It’s found in fruit that’s good and soft (3)
30 Sort of gear to wriggle into? (4)