CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

4 Martial art (6) 7 Insinuation (8) 8 Quantity (6) 10 Hibernian (5) 13 Close angrily (4) 14 Far down (4) 15 Close to (4) 16 Young fox (3) 17 Precipitation

(4)

19 Musical

instrument (4) 21 Laugh uncontrollably (4,5) 23 Abominable

snowman (4) 24 Minute (4) 26 Uncooked (3) 27 Pimple (4) 29 Heroic (4) 32 Rain heavily (4) 33 First-rate (5) 34 Lengths of

metal links (6) 35 Having nowhere

to live (8) 36 Fish hawk (6)

DOWN

1 Stiff (5) 2 Unfasten (5) 3 Net (4) 4 Marsupial (5) 5 Space (4) 6 Organ of taste

(6)

9 Abandon ashore

(6)

11 Agent (3) 12 Small fish (5) 13 Legislator,

statesman (7) 15 Nothing (3) 16 Crib (3)

18 Girl’s name (6) 20 Purchaser (5) 21 Hardly any (3) 22 Drill part (3) 23 Sailing vessels

(6)

25 That man (3)

28 Offensively

assertive (5) 30 Heaps (5) 31 Stop (5) 32 Buttress (4) 33 Entreaty (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

4 Line offering an excursion in the Kentish area (6) 7 Inclination to write a simple song (8) 8 Fearfully

apologetic? (6) 10 Set out to be a warm-hearted fellow (5) 13 Bank of

Scotland! (4) 14 Regrets upsetting the user (4)

15 Little piggies? You’re kidding! (4)

16 When told, was aware of what’s going on (3)

17 Go and get a drunkard out of breath (4) 19 One ticket seller can look like all (4) 21 Sincere possibility of having left the RA (9) 23 Intestinal

fortitude (4) 24 Noble groundsman? (4)

26 Such a lot is not

such a lot (3) 27 It had a certain weakness for hushaby baby (4) 29 These females

use copy (4) 32 Food for peanuts, not social workers (4)

33 Complaint of an irrational prig at the back of the queue (5) 34 China’s fetters?

(6)

35 Fellow determined to become exhausted (5,3) 36 Bakers can use them to slow things down (6)

DOWN

1 Impale fruit for the last of the Mohicans (5) 2 Harden in

water! (5) 3 Why, going out East, something watery is wanted (4) 4 Look ready to burst into tears? (5) 5 Regiment and corps of high quality (4) 6 Ridiculous tripe about Victor making hedge (6)

9 Quicker to make a fatheaded bloomer (6) 11 Suspicious enough to start you ruminating (3)

12 When determined, you have the advantage (5)

13 A teetotaller in trunks, possibly green ones (7) 15 A hill in Pretoria

(3)

16 It may have a

bolt hole (3) 18 Rush around

Athens? (6) 20 One thing you can look forward to getting (5) 21 A shack in

south Utah (3) 22 Enemy, possibly of hearty friends? (3)

23 What collectors do, we understand (6) 25 Company short of material to perform (3) 28 Grates formed

by spars (5) 30 I had to appear in a big success with her (5) 31 Stately homes for squatters? (5)

32 The epicure’s choice, does one hear? (4) 33 Turns and

leaves (4)