CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

9 Prone (9) 10 Make holes in (9) 12 Duty list (4) 13 Outdoor meal (6) 14 Drinking vessel (7) 15 Prehistoric creatures (9) 17 Notes (9) 18 Order (7) 19 Very small (6) 20 Legal document (4) 23 Radioactive element (9) 25 Fast vehicle (6,3) 26 Resonation (4) 27 Card game (6) 29 Rider’s foot support (7) 32 Global (9) 34 Fruit (9) 35 Put in (7) 36 Cunning (6) 37 Information (4) 38 Vigorous (9) 39 Meddle (9)

DOWN

1 Intermittent (8) 2 Disease of farm animals (4-3-5) 3 Tired (8) 4 Sport (6) 5 Sample (8) 6 Branch of maths (10) 7 Nation (7) 8 Senior teacher (10) 11 Once more (5) 16 Skiing race (6) 19 Silent (3) 21 Gramophone (6,6) 22 Heart condition (6) 23 Bigoted (10) 24 Hesitant (10) 25 Regret (3) 28 Frailty (8) 29 Holiness (8) 30 Made ready (8) 31 Make mad (7) 33 Edition (5) 34 Unruffled (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

9 Prayer that gave the desperate four new heart (3,6) 10 Opposed to getting soft with a rival (9) 12 Having met me leaving, enquire after a job (4) 13 Why you get some time in stir (6) 14 Holding his dish and the pot (7) 15 What Frederic ordered around lunchtime in the Chinese restaurant (5,4) 17 Has nothing to complain of, really (9) 18 He gets what’s left: in general, he’ll get a hotchpotch (7) 19 Food for about five I need to cook (6) 20 Mean to add to the quarter yard (4) 23 What the butter-fingered waitress in the tea-room was carrying? (4,5) 25 The Spanish castle I wander round is simply heavenly (9) 26 How you get that job in terra firma? (4) 27 For the family, make an effort (6) 29 The FBI agent’s again turned in the foreigners (7) 32 Stupid blockhead; arid is what it is (9) 34 With the raging fever nigh contained, stop worrying (5,4) 35 Try to make the lovely still lovelier? (7) 36 It’s dull - rue becoming an adult (6) 37 Had spied five entering in the early morning (4) 38 Hand the man in a sheet (9) 39 Does the peach ensemble badly need to be marked down? (9)

DOWN

1 How much food is on the fork is hard to say (8) 2 A rebuke for wearing jeans at the wedding? (8,4) 3 Suppose the moon should appear above the horizon (8) 4 Get there and back in time - right after six (6) 5 Terribly scared about me, tried to attract attention (8) 6 Having no inclination whatsoever - honest (2,3,5) 7 Letting the sea swirl in the fish (7) 8 Bandy? (10) 11 Force to show initiative (5) 16 Don’t like, but try to get on with, Ed Turner (6) 19 Regard as a verbal agreement (3) 21 It does away with the need for screws! (7,5) 22 His advances should be spurned (6) 23 It’s not by chance that you put your mind to (10) 24 Covering everything, generally speaking (2,3,5) 25 Do forgive and have done with it! (3) 28 Supposing the total gains will be spread around (8) 29 Ruled the stray dog should never run loose in it (8) 30 Now, interrupting the calm, comes music (8) 31 Beastly sound a pub outside is responsible for (7) 33 The following time, is gripped by an awful fear (5) 34 Warning saying that the diamonds are fake? (6)