CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 3 Destruction (5) 8 Doing words (5) 10 Pulped fruit or

veg (5) 11 Plaything (3) 12 Anteroom (5) 13 Say unintentionally (3,4) 15 Refute (5) 18 Mingle, blend (3) 19 Gambling place

(6)

21 Chatters (7) 22 Heinous (4) 23 Mail (4)

24 Crime against

the state (7) 26 Formal order (6) 29 Faucet (3) 31 Beer mug (5) 32 Share expenses

equally (2,5) 34 Outstanding (5) 35 Star sign (3) 36 Difficult

question (5) 37 Light boat (5) 38 Insurgent (5)

DOWN

1 Discourage (5) 2 Extremely bad

(7)

4 At the

(4)

5 Musical dramas

(6)

6 Heals (5) 7 Repeat (5) 9 Decompose (3) 12 Sports match (7) 14 Illuminated (3) 16 Buffalo (5) 17 Sounds a horn

(5)

19 Originator (7) 20 Unwelcome

plants (5) 21 Female relative

(5)

23 Liked by many

(7) summit

24 Term of office (6) 25 Unhappy (3) 27 Distinctive

character (5) 28 Stair part (5) 30 Exclusive story

(5)

32 DNA unit (4) 33 Number (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 3 Something written with diplomacy about the ruling head (5)

8 Cat man? (5) 10 Pursuit, possibly

on a horse (5) 11 A favourite trumpet piece (3)

12 Having it in person may be vital (5) 13 Points a piece of furniture out as being reasonable (7) 15 Sportingly describable as the slippery slope? (5)

18 Of Urdu derivation, it means no good (3) 19 There’s spiritual advice to keep this up (6)

21 In which girls may be all bent on playing the game (7) 22 Make a bit

healthier! (4) 23 Don’t go to the

wrong spot (4) 24 Afoot, a frightening thing to say to Jim? (3,4)

26 It’s sad when

tracks go round an endless line (6)

29 Terry has little means of communication (3) 31 To a saint, yes, they can affect viewers (5) 32 A note one left of negligible significance (7) 34 Jelly snake,

I see (5) 35 Made a hole in the dough? Oh no! (3) 36 How Moira goes

native (5)

37 In school, Derek became so inevitably (5) 38 Playful talk? (5)

DOWN

1 Swim round the pierhead and drive off (5) 2 See intricate

detail as something strongly defensible (7) 4 Unusually

meaty? (4)

5 A good house converted cheap at Leatherhead (6) 6 Processed, some nicotine is medicinal (5) 7 Diminish what the seaman had to eat (5)

9 Boy in trouble,

naturally (3) 12 Men of the traditional school? (3,4) 14 An objectionable

word? (3)

16 Slip along and

get the fish (5) 17 Burst out with pure nonsense on finishing last! (5)

19 Such synthetic

stuff can show

a split, note (7) 20 Fragments said to follow fission? (5) 21 Smart refusal to be put out of the race (5) 23 The way to give the firm support (7)

24 So pigs can

spread it? (6) 25 Female always

in the news (3) 27 Is it bound to be a salt product? (5) 28 Hotheaded pair of listeners, one learns (5) 30 Intoxicating Elgar composition (5)

32 That optically disadvantaged trio? (4) 33 Result of wet weather in Bermuda (3)