CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Take unlawfully
(5)
8 Fret (5)
10 Light boat (5) 11 Large road
vehicle (3) 12 Influence (5) 13 Word for word
(7)
15 Bravery award
(5)
18 Pen part (3) 19 Tranquil (6) 21 Muslim fast (7) 22 Bucket (4) 23 Harvest (4) 24 Tutor (7) 26 Belief (6)
29 To strike (3) 31 Spanish man
(5)
32 Meeting for
discussion (7) 34 Of the nose (5) 35 Pistachio, say
(3)
36 Deluge (5) 37 Of the moon
(5)
38 Prepared (5)
DOWN
1 Songbird (5) 2 Arms depot (7) 4 Plough (4) 5 Insight (6) 6 Afterwards (5) 7 Muslim holy
book (5) 9 Groove (3) 12 Nightclub show
(7)
14 Raised edge
(3)
16 Postpone (5) 17 Jumps (5) 19 School bag (7) 20 Glasses (5) 21 Mature (5) 23 Entourage (7) 24 Declamation
(6)
25 That man (3) 27 Kingdom (5) 28 Person giving
blood (5) 30 Ending in death
(5)
32 Beach grains
(4)
33 Religious sister
(3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 They’re lazy and get the boss upset about money (5)
8 He’s nominally eager to get to the end of the road (5) 10 Apparently quarrelsome oarsman? (5) 11 Important part of Denbigh (3)
12 The sort of profit Clare made (5)
13 Run out of line, to be honest (7)
15 Stop using middlemen, just in case (5) 18 View from the bishop’s window (3)
19 Boat returning from a fruitless event (6)
21 A son sat playing them at the piano (7) 22 The place Oscar managed (4)
23 Stitched up in various ways (4)
24 Deserved to get home at last, tired out! (7) 26 Twenty runs at
a time? (6) 29 In an arable area, it’s green (3)
31 Radio equipment to get the melody right (5)
32 A master gets a laboratory in a state (7) 34 That saucy old
diva (5)
35 Spin out part of the weekend (3)
36 A removal sign
(5)
37 Gave a hand (5) 38 A stand seat (5)
DOWN
1 Possibly bears
a sword (5) 2 Puts oneself down as a joiner (5,2) 4 Savage yet flowery entertainer? (4) 5 Pairs responsible for holdups (6) 6 Wild roses can
give pain (5) 7 Can be eaten in quiet relaxation (5)
9 By way of a
Roman road (3) 12 Damages many parts of the house (7)
14 Mr Livingstone from Twickenham (3) 16 Required to
make a desk (5) 17 In Ireland, an
antelope (5) 19 Such ice gets Ivan all upset (7)
20 Roll down to the
sea (5) 21 It may have more beautiful customers (5) 23 Not marine insects but U.S. servicemen (7) 24 Just superlative!
(6)
25 One of those stirring times? (3)
27 An immortal with whom I’d go to tea! (5) 28 Twin brother sure to stagger about a lot (5)
30 Fragrance to sell around Maidenhead (5)
32 His brother struck him as murderous (4) 33 Otherwise called extract of sea kale (3)