CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Traditional

practice (6) 7 Surprise greatly

(8)

8 A fish (4) 10 Rank (6) 11 Concluding

part (6) 14 Alcoholic spirit

(3)

16 Cuts into cubes

(5)

17 Girl (4) 19 Competitor (5) 21 Rot (5) 22 Student (5) 23 Farmyard birds

(4)

26 Hut (5) 28 Stripling (3) 29 State without

proof (6) 30 Corsair (6) 31 Paper quantity

(4)

32 Large snake (8) 33 Full form of Mr

(6)

DOWN

1 Hand tool (6) 2 To be precise

(4,2)

3 Majority, bulk (4) 4 Vacation (7) 5 Light purple (5) 6 Brogues, for

example (5) 8 Sacks (4)

9 Star (3) 12 Nothing (3) 13 Fruit (5) 15 Lawful (5) 18 Shock, dismay

(5)

19 Agent (3) 20 Girl’s name (3) 21 Underground

cell (7)

22 Baked food

item (3)

23 To badger (6)

24 Dutch cheese

(4)

25 Kebab spike (6) 26 Unit of purity

of gold (5) 27 Desolate (5) 28 Fib (3)

30 Baby carriage (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Keep tearing endlessly around (6) 7 Reckon to eat poorly at various times (8)

8 High ground

in Vietnam (4) 10 Escape with a broken toe in a tug disaster (3,3)

11 Effective ruler of

the street? (6) 14 The sphere of

royalty? (3) 16 Trips, hopefully without falling (5)

17 Is a dashing

candidate (4) 19 Anybody can

sing one (5) 21 With the bad housing, Victor’s in a terrible hole! (5) 22 Terry taking a bath, perhaps? (5)

23 As a concert piece, it can’t fail! (4) 26 Summarise

shortly (5) 28 Some legumes can take a lot of chewing (3) 29 His employer being out for half an hour, he’ll give a loan (6) 30 Detesting a thing being out of order (6) 31 River scene of historic battle in navy service (4)

32 Showed signs of wanting to communicate (8)

33 Actors who no longer star, perhaps? (6)

DOWN

1 The campanologist’s double? (6)

2 In movies, they may get cars to crash! (6) 3 Clever way to

mend a net (4) 4 A drink the pit worker has a name for (7) 5 Beaten in a friendly game (5)

6 Gets out for a bit of fun with the chaps (5) 8 A noted heavyweight able to teach boys (4)

9 Point raised in

abundance (3) 12 It’s alcoholic, that’s very clear (3)

13 Not even upset at the bitter end (5) 15 Figure in a duet that can help one to sleep (5) 18 Desires wild grouse, not duck (5)

19 The way of a

showman (3) 20 Gibson in the part of Hamlet, possibly? (3) 21 Optimistic of finding fresh fuel for a flight (7)

22 Jack’s cunning

art (3)

23 Style estimated

nicest (6)

24 Top man reducing the rise in crime (4) 25 Nobody would take them for slacks (6) 26 Around the North Pole, warm covers for climbers (5) 27 Cures gone wrong, dammit! (5) 28 Inflationary cause of the balloon going up? (3)

30 A park with character, mister (4)