CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Notions (5) 8 Sum (5) 10 Clyde, say (5) 11 In favour of (3) 12 Coach (5) 13 French bean (7) 15 Spanish man
(5)
18 At present (3) 19 Be on one’s
guard (6) 21 Small rounded
stones (7) 22 Muslim ruler (4) 23 Give up (4) 24 Of the sides (7) 26 Feline mammal
(6)
29 Tree type (3) 31 Dance to this
(5)
32 Repulsive (7) 34 Unit of purity
of gold (5)
35 A craze (3) 36 To call on (5) 37 Italian city (5) 38 Abrupt (5)
DOWN
1 As yet (2,3) 2 Seaman (7) 4 Move quickly and suddenly (4)
5 Comes about
(6)
6 Tendon (5) 7 Male voice (5) 9 High hill (3) 12 Tug (7)
14 Male swan (3) 16 Bellybutton
(5)
17 Insurgent (5) 19 Advantage (7) 20 Snake poison
(5)
21 Heaps (5) 23 Cautious (7) 24 Situate or place
(6)
25 To free (3) 27 Herb (5) 28 Lawful (5) 30 Of sound or
hearing (5) 32 Trilbies, say (4) 33 Rowing blade
(3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Requiring substantial effort (like a bit of a heave?) (5)
8 One thing to do when a beast is cooked (5) 10 She has only an odd pair left (5)
11 A salient feature of perjury (3) 12 President possibly sat on (5)
13 It can protect a soldier, darling (7)
15 A man’s name for mid-morning sickness? (5) 18 He joins mum at the Nag’s Head (3) 19 Where, in France, to play a scale (6)
21 A ton of runs
(7)
22 A Damoclean
supporter (4) 23 Bring up at
the back (4) 24 They join the surgeon’s union (7)
26 For which the ball needs to be round (6) 29 Browne the belt
(3)
31 It can be bottled in the Netherlands (5) 32 Explosive pieces of journalism (7) 34 Kept going to
the devil? (5) 35 Conservative
tax (3)
36 Her ladle’s
broken (5) 37 Pay it at last after a bit of a reminder (5) 38 Less modern ingredient of petrol, derv, etc. (5)
DOWN
1 Tasteful publicity for a volatile girl (5) 2 Ship’s master
roving out
East (7) 4 Genuine contribution to speech therapy (4)
5 Uselessly moving the anvil to the rear of the smithy (6) 6 Town in Uruguay,
presumably (5) 7 Copy me a duplicate letter! (5)
9 Teacher is wrong, yet right (3)
12 Horseman in
Greek myth (7) 14 Harshly criticise
all (3)
16 Saves broken
pottery (5) 17 Discover there’s money to be paid (5) 19 Excited, not
uselessly (7) 20 A spell out of
shape (5) 21 Many a measure is a sure thing (5) 23 Did the shifty thing, drove me mad (7) 24 A bitty story
(6)
25 If taken, not
beaten (3) 27 To back the mare as an option (5)
28 In a string quartet, the one with the biggest belly (5)
30 A teetotaller, I see, nevertheless high (5) 32 Concerning me and certain servicemen (4) 33 Beast taking a
battering? (3)