CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
4 Slander (6) 7 Large passenger
plane (8)
8 Fruit (6) 10 Stupid (5) 13 Unlock (4) 14 Fish (4)
15 Only remaining
(4)
16 Total (3) 17 Alcoholic drink
(4)
19 Minute particle
(4)
21 Garment (4,5) 23 Prohibition (4) 24 Lion’s long hair
(4)
26 Mine (3)
27 A drama (4) 29 Fingertip cover
(4)
32 Intend (4) 33 Confuse (5) 34 Strain,
emphasis (6) 35 Gemstones (8) 36 Dealer or
merchant (6)
DOWN
1 Unit of purity
of gold (5) 2 Coach (5) 3 Desire (4) 4 Lets fall (5) 5 Pastry case
with a filling (4) 6 Bottle size (6) 9 Keep possession of (6) 11 Play on words
(3)
12 Wooden shoe
(5)
13 Rower (7) 15 Star sign (3) 16 Habitual
drunkard (3) 18 Runs away to
wed (6) 20 Fashion (5)
21 Favourite (3) 22 Horses eat this
(3)
23 Winner (6) 25 Lubricate (3) 28 Intense beam
of light (5) 30 Grown-up (5) 31 Dog lead (5) 32 Fix (4)
33 Land measure
(4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
4 An elastic band
(6)
7 Around the end of term, do wake up the dozy creature! (8)
8 Chat with Jack -- the toad! (6)
10 Bit of a simpleton, make it known (3,2)
13 Notedly free
trip (4) 14 Vehicle misdirected on the M1? (4) 15 Drink for the busy worker at central Hammersmith (4)
16 Tasty?
No thanks! (3) 17 Ancient goddess who emphatically exists! (4)
19 Is a slow starter where savings accounts are concerned (4) 21 Flutter by if you like, madam (9) 23 Panto actor?
(4) 24 The importance of communication (4)
26 A gig for some
banjo boys (3) 27 Sort of room
for betting? (4) 29 An area scheme
(4)
32 Amiable French associates of Kingsley (4) 33 More than a
ton of rock (5) 34 Sailor said to be fond of olive oil (6) 35 Despite composure, Cleo had to get upset about nothing (4,4) 36 Take form! (6)
DOWN
1 Possibly solid figures (5) 2 What I do right, you might say
(5)
3 Many admit to being depressed (4) 4 Lamp spirit? (5) 5 Charge at
speed (4)
6 What happened in the uncertain seventies? (6) 9 Floating around getting a doctor properly fit (6) 11 Street of horror
(3)
12 Dislike removing the piano from a platform (5) 13 Objects to Ernest’s shiftiness (7) 15 Portion of
rabbit (3) 16 Let’s suppose Sally’s lost fifty quid (3) 18 Ultimately prissy letters about a side
being sexy (6) 20 Took the rest of the assorted pelts (5) 21 Could baby wear it upside down? (3)
22 Fishy food from the Faeroes? (3)
23 So more distress makes you unhappy (6)
25 Front man? (3) 28 She’s relatively fetching out East (5)
30 But is he fond of money more? (5)
31 Boy resembling Winnie the Pooh? (5) 32 Type of engine much used in raising ore (4) 33 Cans of it have
unusual lids (4)