CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Shock, dismay
(5)
8 Discourage (5) 10 Flies high (5) 11 Decompose (3) 12 Singlets (5) 13 Very bad (7) 15 Picture puzzle
(5)
18 Register, record
(3)
19 Exhibit, flaunt
(6)
21 Book collection
(7)
22 At the summit
(4)
23 Furniture item
(4) 24 Photographer (7) 26 Evoke (6) 29 Pelvis (3) 31 Neighbourhood
pub (5) 32 Indicates,
designates (7) 34 Post off (5) 35 So or thus (3) 36 Clean feathers
(5)
37 Take away (5) 38 Thieve (5)
DOWN
1 Doing words (5) 2 Allow to escape
(3,4)
4 Pare (4)
5 Out of the
correct path (6) 6 Defeated
competitor (5) 7 Deliberate
deceit (5) 9 Plaything (3) 12 Tramp (7) 14 Angry crowd (3) 16 Bread maker (5) 17 Looks for (5) 19 Seer (7)
20 Ship of the
desert (5)
21 Reasoned
thought (5) 23 Down payment
(7)
24 Noiseless (6) 25 Narrow brooch
(3)
27 Truck (5) 28 Takes an
interest in (5) 30 Happen again
(5)
32 Prima donna (4) 33 Metallic
element (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Do but cast
suspicion (5)
8 A water
conveyance (5) 10 Like ancient CID
figures? (5) 11 Start the car up after tea, maybe (3)
12 Not much fight
(5)
13 An occurrence in a quiet setting, maybe like heaven (7) 15 Unusually good purse, possibly (5)
18 Much reduced
fare (3)
19 Hope to rise to a high position in the church? (6)
21 Frank’s policy (7) 22 Assert to be right on the way (4)
23 Is this house
shut up? (4) 24 Learned writers, but they still use a crib (7) 26 A warm place on hot ground (6) 29 Stick to Stewart
(3)
31 Nears a more sensible arrangement (5) 32 Defunct deity with a straight face (7) 34 Numerous keys can be confused (5) 35 Left the thing to be illuminated (3)
36 It can put you
in the shade (5) 37 Little men in
Regent Street (5) 38 Check the dodgy outer parts looking unhealthy (5)
DOWN
1 Steps taken by experts with happy heart (5) 2 Desire what proof he could provide (4,3) 4 That anguished cry when kicked into touch? (4) 5 Asinine utterance about a ship being flashy (6)
6 Give that bit extra to a youngster (3,2) 7 Hesitate to be a
flag bearer? (5) 9 A diminutive and informal boss (3)
12 Be lengthened, as a sentence (7)
14 Little girl, yet a grandmother! (3)
16 From which gas or smoke may emerge (5) 17 Relaxes in a forest stream (5)
19 Maybe it rated being dressed up (7) 20 Many new hats suit a head for figures! (5) 21 One tough enough to get his master to chicken out? (2-3)
23 Went around selling things (on a bike?) (7)
24 For a short way, take the bus or walk (6) 25 Snake boasting no ability to hurt (3)
27 In front of the
clock (5) 28 Uncle’s about to
sum up (5) 30 Dotty teetotaller immersed in water! (5)
32 Act up
repeatedly (4) 33 Security device used in camping (3)