CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Bullet that expands (6) 7 Puerile (8) 8 Flying mammals

(4) 10 Tolerates (6) 11 Powerful (6) 14 Meadow (3) 16 Fails to win (5) 17 Hand part (4) 19 Main drain (5) 21 Cavities (5) 22 Morocco’s capital (5) 23 Cultivate land (4) 26 Exclude (5) 28 Teacher’s title (3) 29 Excused (6) 30 Showing kindliness (6) 31 Heavy metal (4) 32 Slow-moving creature (8) 33 Doleful (6)

DOWN

1 Abscond (6) 2 Royal crown (6) 3 Unmarried woman (4) 4 Wheedles (7) 5 Melodies (5) 6 Cults (5) 8 Beak (4) 9 Light afternoon meal (3) 12 Hill (3) 13 Not ever (5) 15 Hold up (5) 18 Add or attach (5) 19 Weep (3) 20 Moisten (3) 21 Whaler’s spear (7) 22 Male sheep (3) 23 Concluding part (6) 24 Dry (4) 25 Ape (6) 26 End of life (5) 27 Man’s facial hair (5) 28 Observe (3) 30 Lost blood (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Forename for a school head and artist? (6) 7 Turn up with the cash, darling, and that will partly cover you (8) 8 A not exactly safe place for coffee? (4) 10 No amateur figures to be long-winded (6) 11 Get the damaged boat in (6) 14 Railway timetable extract? (3) 16 Bachelor embracing a girl before marriage (5) 17 Behind the right ear (4) 19 One with news of a tame tiger? (5) 21 A cheap drink (5) 22 One flapping around the Rhone? (5) 23 Swimmer getting back in practice (4) 26 Plenty of supporters (5) 28 Talk out of turn again (3) 29 Only one club in a suit! (6) 30 Splendidly fly around, in a way (6) 31 Musical work, usually not American (4) 32 A better lake (8) 33 Though not wise, the message may merit discussion (6)

DOWN

1 A meal goes down fine, gathered round the piano (6) 2 In business, he’ll give a hand (6) 3 Top in geometry (4) 4 Cry about one’s flab? (7) 5 A road north associated with the birds (5) 6 Does a smooth job, like Jeremy (5) 8 In which to be unconscious of an optical fault? (4) 9 A leader of fashion gets it at the gym, perhaps (3) 12 Jack backs rate reduction (3) 13 Bring on what is able to become irremediable? (5) 15 Stick up some notable personage (5) 18 Is she from Sheffield? (5) 19 It’s usual to make dad ringleader (3) 20 A writer to shut up? (3) 21 We get tough with a horse opera (7) 22 Father’s girl? (3) 23 But he didn’t rule the waves (6) 24 Starts to seem old and somehow sage (4) 25 On the quiet, yes, at certain points they receive money (6) 26 New shape stage (5) 27 If electric, 50 amperes (5) 28 What a pin-up might feel in the air? (3) 30 Because, at the revolutionary centre, there’s a stronghold (4)