CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Jumps (5) 8 Mistake (5) 10 Tree sap (5) 11 Forbid (3) 12 Skinflint (5) 13 Of the sides (7) 15 Japanese

padded quilt (5) 18 Corpulence (3) 19 Distant (6) 21 School prefect

(7)

22 Water jug (4) 23 Male deer (4) 24 Disfigures (7) 26 Couch (6) 29 Male cat (3) 31 Artist’s stand

(5)

32 Deer meat (7) 34 Naked figures

(5)

35 Signal

agreement (3) 36 Reddish fluid (5) 37 People from

Denmark (5) 38 Rips (5)

DOWN

1 Of a town (5) 2 Dead, almost

dead (4,3) 4 Heinous (4) 5 Favour (6) 6 Whey (5)

7 Flier (5) 9 Rodent (3) 12 Afternoon show

(7)

14 Managed (3) 16 Sounds a horn

(5)

17 Whinny (5) 19 Revolves (7) 20 Tantalise (5) 21 Thaws (5) 23 Meeting for

discussion (7) 24 Mislead (6) 25 Confidence trick

(3)

27 Premature (5) 28 Male voice (5) 30 Cowboy show

(5)

32 Sell (4) 33 Male offspring

(3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Where a bad lie, of course, is approximate? (5)

8 Weakens enough to point to the wrong list (5)

10 Do a stretch up

the river (5) 11 You can make it hot for somebody (3) 12 Test match?

(5)

13 White woman

nominally (7) 15 Stimulate a youngster with a bit of hope (3,2)

18 It doesn’t deserve full belief! (3) 19 There’s reason, perhaps, to call a lady this (6) 21 Certain soldiers’ right to be spaced out (7) 22 Around closing time, a boy may take an order (4)

23 Player to watch

a lot? (4)

24 A smasher, once apt to lead seamen astray (7) 26 Hang on to one’s position (4,2) 29 Is he timeless?

(3)

31 Unwanted optical effects (5)

32 An entertainer, trite as can be (7)

34 If she gives you a ring, you’ll hear from her (5)

35 Neither may come from “19 Across” (3) 36 Lived wildly,

the rascal! (5) 37 Like the attraction of a rich man? (5) 38 Doing something knotty (5)

DOWN

1 Lordly name? (5) 2 He found Livingstone very remote (7)

4 A great character, possibly in panto (4)

5 They were fabulously sour to the fox (6) 6 She made a new start after breaking a heel (5)

7 Bitter about Charlie having to clean and polish (5) 9 Pleasant land?

(3)

12 Being in this, you aren’t really transported! (3,4)

14 Figures in plain

clothes (3) 16 The ability to make some flower pots (5) 17 Irishman in the field of cereal production (5)

19 Ghost that can

give you the creeps around opening time (7) 20 Maybe tigerish

fliers? (5) 21 RSVP (5) 23 Airmen’s assembly for group discussion (7)

24 It’s shrewd to get out of the way thus (6) 25 It’s wholly associated with caboodle (3) 27 In polyglot terminology, a fish eater (5) 28 Such cards are no credit to anyone (5) 30 The last thing to give you warts? (5)

32 Did an avalanche engulf him? (4) 33 It’s almost a toss-up whether he’s sober (3)