CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
8 Take advantage of
(3,4)
9 Not manual (9)
13 Wet (5)
14 Perfect (5)
15 Easily angered (7) 16 Unnecessarily effusive
(7)
17 Implements (5) 18 Gazed stupidly (5) 20 Fortunate (5)
22 Large wasp (6) 23 Grown-ups (6)
25 Theft (7)
27 Skittish (7)
30 Tedious (6) 31 Two-piece swimsuit (6) 32 Inexpensive (5) 35 Indian language (5) 36 Beneath (5)
37 Deer meat (7)
39 Fruit (7)
41 Irk (5)
42 On two occasions (5) 43 Cricket international
(4,5)
44 Folly (7)
DOWN
1 Interment (6) 2 Meddlesome person
(8)
3 Communication device
(6,5)
4 Earth-moving machine
(9)
5 Nonsense (7) 6 Dachshund (7,3)
7 New Zealand bird (4) 10 Crafty (6)
11 100 years (7)
12 Greek island (6) 19 Artist’s mixing board
(7)
21 Mortification (7) 24 Spiritualist (11) 26 Seize (10)
28 Obstacle (9) 29 Pulsating with life (7) 30 Decapitate (6) 32 Unchanging (8) 33 Think about (6)
34 Refuse collector (7) 38 Untrustworthy (6) 40 Spool (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 Longed, after a period
at home, to return (7) 9 Is useless -- at the brainstorming session? (3,2,4)
13 Will, if you forsake
(5)
14 Taste, in the buffet
(5)
15 Gather it’s the back room and the outside bed (7)
16 Mark is a good golfer
(7)
17 The foreigner in the vegetarian restaurant (5)
18 From bygone days, a staple in the kitchen cupboard (5)
20 Paid off, by the end of the year, which is quick (5)
22 Go too far again and
bash (6)
23 For setting the bird free outside, be teased (6)
25 Go slow when entering the awful settlement (7)
27 Bottle as opposed to a tin, for a change (7)
30 Look for a key to open
up with (6)
31 Nick is more
self-possessed (6) 32 Is inclined, when it’s close to the master (5)
35 Cook the same stew, putting best end in it (5)
36 Will he trundle the
hoop? (5)
37 Acting oddly, one’s
hidden the label (2,5) 39 Presses the incest, crumpled one to pack in (7)
41 A deficiency, I’m sorry
to say (5)
42 A little cry from a little
bird (5)
43 More damn trouble about a batch of notes! (9)
44 A crushing remark you
attribute to (3-4)
DOWN
1 Go back through, to
take a look at (6) 2 Having bust, stopped
(8)
3 Obtains by means of, when one manages to speak to (4,7) 4 Villainy that goes on
at night? (4,5) 5 Criticised for having
struck (7)
6 Ridiculous score for a
cricketer (5,5)
7 “Hey, listen!” you say
(4)
10 With the shutter, it’s
less airy (6)
11 The clot is prone to
cover for the girls (7) 12 Leave just a wisp (6) 19 Perfect for when I’m going through a fit of the blues (7)
21 It’s for your ears only,
soldier (7)
24 If you are, there’s little future for you as a guard (4,7) 26 A crazy suggestion, but it gets one moving (10)
28 What a rash twit
Thomas is! (9) 29 Likewise, managed to lose one money at the races? (4-3)
30 Talk unnecessarily and the doctor is so held up (6)
32 Is intended to be read,
one argues (3,5)
33 Hot and bothered, hates carrying the case (6)
34 A ball girl? (7)
38 Doesn’t veto grants
(6)
40 Exulted over the seamen
(4)