CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

4 Country (6) 7 Insinuation (8) 8 Picture house

(6)

10 Rigid (5) 13 Traffic marker

(4)

14 Row, rank (4) 15 Burden (4) 16 Groove (3) 17 Paradise (4) 19 Mosque prayer

leader (4) 21 Ruse (9) 23 Travel permit (4) 24 Tumult (4) 26 Was victorious

(3)

27 Poke (4) 29 Housetop (4) 32 Cure (4) 33 Equine mammal

(5)

34 Hair colour (6) 35 Criminal

underworld (8) 36 Expunge (6)

DOWN

1 Opposite of last

(5)

2 Unfasten (5) 3 Red meat (4) 4 Bedtime drink

(5)

5 Not any (4) 6 Expanding

bullet (6) 9 Spectral colour

(6)

11 Gratuity (3) 12 Worries (5) 13 Regulate (7) 15 Meadow (3) 16 Tup (3)

18 Dealer in fabrics

(6)

20 French

underground (5) 21 Transgression

(3)

22 Help, assist (3)

23 Loudness (6) 25 Lettuce (3) 28 Scope (5) 30 Keyboard

instrument (5) 31 Gives food to

(5) 32 Gargantuan (4) 33 Not low (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

4 Immobilised outright when hit (6)

7 Acts not allowed, as it happens (5,3) 8 At the end of months, they may still be hot (6)

10 Quick but soft-hearted attack! (5) 13 Looks back

again (4)

14 Well balanced woman with a motherless man (4) 15 Natural

depression (4) 16 He’s plumb

suspended! (3) 17 The benefit

from a gin? (4) 19 Slight, subtle

hint (4) 21 Happen to emerge embracing a sailor (4,5)

23 Is it just too too short for offstage wear? (4) 24 Large containers

of nuts (4) 26 Silly fellow climbing a tree? (3)

27 With which to open hostilities? (4) 29 Here’s a horse,

your majesty (4) 32 A person of

vision (4) 33 Hardy monster, being difficult to decapitate? (5) 34 Ruddy wild cries at the end of the race! (6) 35 It’s an inspector’s characteristic to be absentminded! (8) 36 Differing in tastes, they may still be united (6)

DOWN

1 Keep to the right in the Kentish area (5) 2 Rubbish unacceptable to vegetarians (5)

3 Ushered her out? That’s not new! (4) 4 There’s plenty

of iron in it (5) 5 Cage makers?

(4)

6 Box with skill in

trickery (6) 9 Cloth woven in parts of Burslem, notably? (6) 11 A short thoroughfare in Leavenworth (3) 12 Form taken by some gold alloyed with tin? (5)

13 There may be no tears for this politician (7) 15 Dye said to fade

(3)

16 The penetrative

part? (3) 18 Entertains Seamus somehow (6) 20 Can her brazenness make us shy? (5)

21 What Charlie raised when it was won? (3) 22 Not the only word of exception (3) 23 Gift of a drink in an explosive case (6) 25 Stray from the

proper road (3) 28 Doesn’t ignore a bit of help in building a shed (5) 30 Suggestions for sorting out Sadie? (5) 31 Dirty electrical connection? (5)

32 Deposit the

revised list (4) 33 With respect,

they’re off (4)