CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Cruel, vicious
(6)
7 In the open air
(8)
8 Be on fire (4) 10 Daft (6) 11 Outward
appearance (6) 14 Gave food to
(3)
16 Claw (5) 17 Strongbox (4) 19 Landed estate
(5)
21 Defeated
competitor (5) 22 Nun’s costume
(5)
23 American
ostrich (4) 26 Pigmeat (5) 28 Born as (3) 29 Newspaper
boss (6) 30 Trustworthy
(6)
31 Object of
worship (4) 32 Partisan (3-5) 33 Boy’s name (6)
DOWN
1 Ruptures (6) 2 Hairpiece (6) 3 Touch down (4) 4 Originator (7) 5 Customary (5) 6 Twelve (5) 8 Polish (4)
9 To free (3) 12 Vehicle (3) 13 Sidestep (5) 15 Fundamental (5) 18 In front (5) 19 Angry crowd
(3)
20 Mesh (3) 21 Wool fat (7) 22 Spicy (3) 23 Fame (6)
24 Foot part (4) 25 Painter (6)
26 Broom of twigs
(5)
27 Alcoholic drink
(5)
28 Signal
agreement (3) 30 Conceal (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 My Tess uses this arrangement (6)
7 Sandy, maybe, is apt to be irritating (8) 8 Fishy film?
(4)
10 Posh seat on
a jumbo (6) 11 Friendly signs when there are troubled skies at Spithead (6) 14 Prudence’s boy?
(3)
16 The riddle is possibly woman! (5) 17 In a heavenly way, he’s thunderous (4) 19 Drink harder to swallow when cold? (5)
21 It goes with all geese indiscriminately (5)
22 What to do when a snappish dog takes a piece off your nose? (5)
23 Adds up the outcome when people multiply (4)
26 Brush in more ways than one (5) 28 Do a job that’s not so unmentionable (3) 29 Pretty feminine
sort of cake (6) 30 Jeer unfairly at my forename (6)
31 Deserve to be near, perhaps (4)
32 Famous poppy
growing area (8) 33 For many people, the wrong rhyme (6)
DOWN
1 Container that cheats, maybe? (6)
2 Seller of less than a metre possibly dear (6)
3 There’s many a tree to reduce to pulp (4) 4 The artist is surrounded by unconventional mates (7)
5 A quick wash
(5)
6 Lines from
overseas (5) 8 Its exponents
are belted (4) 9 Siamese said to leave Taiwan pallid (3)
12 Be resting as
a model (3) 13 Throw out for starting trouble with wicked vice (5)
15 Residence with
hot water (5) 18 In which to rabbit on about the cramped accommodation? (5)
19 Jack thanks a
raw beginner (3) 20 It’s a one-stroke
(3)
21 Go down with a below standard team (7)
22 One playfully pushed over a bridge? (3) 23 Fear to make a slip with a tin-opener (6) 24 Be indebted, at one point, to a soccer star (4) 25 Mentioning a
maxim (6)
26 Eat in various coffee houses (5)
27 Improve the track for a race (5)
28 In some cases
it’s stormy! (3) 30 A joke just unusually enunciated (4)