CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

9 Fruit (9)

10 Docile (8)

12 Defence feature (4) 13 Hit (6)

14 Geometric shape (7) 15 Need for action (9) 17 Hormone (9) 18 Building (7) 20 Earthquake (6)

21 Lack (4)

24 Set of letters (8) 26 Inclination (8) 28 Eastern European (4) 29 Vinegar acid (6)

31 Fit of anger (7) 34 Paying fare (9)

36 Tower of London guard

(9)

38 Rank of the nobility (7) 39 Feline (6)

40 Gastropod mollusc (4) 41 Notorious (8) 42 Poisonous fungus (9)

DOWN

1 Headlong rush of

cattle (8)

2 Hire (6)

3 Length (8) 4 Pulchritude (6) 5 Furniture item (8) 6 Hot dried berry (10) 7 Lively (7)

8 Tooth covering (6) 11 Peculiarity (7) 16 Japanese female

companion (6) 19 Lazy person (5) 20 Rubbish (3)

22 Bring upon oneself

(5)

23 Spiritualist’s meeting

(6)

25 Board game (10) 26 Spasm (3)

27 Plug (7) 30 Herbivorous reptile

(8)

31 Abstinent (8) 32 Tropical flower (8) 33 Expressionless (7) 35 Muscular (6) 36 Respiration (6) 37 Animal fat (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Still applies if the grip’s

O.K. (5,4)

10 Worried, agrees to put in an addendum, as one forecasts (8) 12 The gentleman and

I brought her back (4) 13 See turning in the gun that was misappropriated (6) 14 The small, older one on the inside is in the army (7)

15 Noticing the traffic has been stopped, cross (6,3)

17 Shouted to the daughter

held captive below (9) 18 What is forcing the rain through the shades? (7)

20 Lash out when you get luck as a prospector (6) 21 Bearing with the people

I admitted (4) 24 Compensating for,

by toadying to (6,2) 26 The guard has been

posted: Neil Turner (8) 28 Was less low, due to

the wine (4)

29 Stopped its use in the

home (6)

31 Shouts and storms

(7)

34 Unhappy, urge into

action (9)

36 Kept guard at the window while one searched for (6,3) 38 Heading is: “Top player

gets into Trouble” (7) 39 Deny once having

carried a gun (6)

40 Are reps and a

disappointment (4) 41 Inaccuracies, I bet,

in the writing (8) 42 Moderates but doesn’t, perhaps, admit to (5,4)

DOWN

1 Do you sever all links

with it? (5,3)

2 A spot, you say,

of food (6)

3 Twists and the cotton’s snarled: caught right inside (8)

4 Confused, put

another pound in (6) 5 Miss the ride the rest went off on

(8)

6 Start eagerly but find you can go no further (3,5,2) 7 There are songs, now, and dances about (7)

8 With weight,

he disputes it (6) 11 Standing about and outdoing when it comes to eating (7) 16 The twin went off with it,

the dope! (6)

19 Gather it’s an admission that one is a fool (5)

20 It doesn’t weaken the

tree (3)

22 Just what I need!

Lunchtime traffic (5) 23 A small tick (6)

25 Why the charmer’s secrets were secrets no more? (5,5) 26 Reported I had got in,

in need of a lift (3) 27 Make for the gun in the

coloured holster (7) 30 The foreigners sue the interned Scandinavians (8)

31 Photographing the

execution (8) 32 Determining,

on meeting (8)

33 Fights to get the breaks

one’s put in for (7) 35 Nip back, love,

to get the material (6) 36 Comes upon unexpectedly when one lands (6)

37 Without the other, has gone off to somewhere in the U.S. (6)