CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Delicate strands
(5)
8 Brimless cap
(5)
10 Aircraft detection device (5) 11 Fish (3) 12 Celestial body
(5)
13 Clothing (7) 15 Belong, conform
(3,2)
18 High hill (3) 19 Threat (6) 21 Colonist (7) 22 Went fast (4) 23 Deceased (4) 24 Conundrums (7) 26 Ability to judge
well (6)
29 Tennis shot (3) 31 Backless shoes
(5)
32 Lockjaw (7) 34 Governs (5) 35 Metallic
element (3) 36 Note value (5) 37 Native American
dwelling (5) 38 Molars, say (5)
DOWN
1 Oozes (5) 2 Unduly deferred
(7)
4 Object of
worship (4) 5 Favour (6) 6 Glossy fabric (5) 7 Fundamental (5) 9 Agent (3) 12 Sure (7) 14 Decompose (3) 16 Stories (5) 17 Requirements
(5)
19 Interferes (7) 20 Major religion
(5)
21 South Korean
capital (5)
23 Formal
discussions (7) 24 Begin again (6) 25 Auction item
(3)
27 Herb (5)
28 Be worthy of (5) 30 Wind-driven
sand hills (5) 32 Marquee, for
example (4) 33 Pinch (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 They’re licked
and eaten (5) 8 Machine used for work in the Mediterranean (5)
10 Wrongly rinse in something sticky (5) 11 Blend number
1009 (3)
12 As eaten with some tinned potatoes? (5) 13 He has a job taking care (7)
15 It’s noticeably tall we are, in height (5) 18 Source of a bit of a scare on the road? (3) 19 The bullfighter rushed right to the ring! (6) 21 Continue making comedies (5,2) 22 I get to the fore, nominally (4)
23 In fact, decided to dispense with detectives (4)
24 Broadcast jazzy singing half the winter (7) 26 Badly stored in a country area (6)
29 An atom in
motion (3) 31 A tracking aid
(5)
32 Took undue interest but posed no problem (7) 34 As things are, a mere existence (5)
35 Possibly not a
weight? (3) 36 Showing envy out of inexperience? (5)
37 It’s not great at the shallow end (5)
38 A person not getting on, one gathers? (5)
DOWN
1 She won out as a mother (5) 2 A sort of wave
of support (7) 4 In the army, you
learn (4)
5 A little matter for the professional heavyweight (6) 6 His wife gives him an article (5)
7 A better judge?
(5)
9 On course, apt to be in a hole (3)
12 See the misguided rector as right! (7)
14 Jack may be low
in cigarettes (3) 16 River mistaken
for a sewer? (5) 17 Anchorages shown on ordinary maps (5)
19 Sounding
one’s horn somewhere near Streatham (7)
20 Learns the fishy bits about a trading centre (5)
21 Capital rhyme
for a tyro (5) 23 Meant to dote madly on little Dennis (7) 24 Calm directions to a Frenchman (6)
25 A sound figure but excessively so! (3)
27 Some composer’s opus for a long time (5)
28 New robes, not
gaudy (5)
30 The part involving decimalisation (5) 32 Price cut? (4) 33 Music with
“go” (3)