CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

4 Demure (6) 7 Degree of

difference (8) 8 Insight (6) 10 Concerning (5) 13 Business

company (4) 14 Tablet (4) 15 Girl’s name (4) 16 Small barrel (3) 17 Metal money

(4)

19 Change

direction (4) 21 Hired soldier

(9)

23 Decoy (4) 24 Locate (4) 26 Beseech (3) 27 Pant (4) 29 Harvest (4) 32 Nucleus (4) 33 Reserve supply

(5)

34 Heathens (6) 35 Salve (8) 36 Numb, dampen

(6)

DOWN

1 Fragment (5) 2 Sign up for a

course (5) 3 Worry (4) 4 Tarnish (5) 5 Percussion

instrument (4) 6 Wobble (6) 9 Neckwear item

(6)

11 Large (3) 12 Open sore (5) 13 Elegant skill

(7)

15 Facial twitch (3) 16 Lock opener (3) 18 American state

(6)

20 Put up (5) 21 Drinking vessel

(3)

22 Pinch (3)

23 Envoy (6)

25 In favour of (3) 28 Illegal burning

(5) 30 Romantic

flowers (5) 31 Trivial (5) 32 Stiff paper (4) 33 Satisfy (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

4 He has a holiday, all the same (6) 7 Appearing to be

a bloomer (2,6) 8 A Spaniard is a handsome fellow (6) 10 Protection with strings attached (5)

13 That terrible police inspector again! (4) 14 Regrets causing sure chaos (4) 15 He’ll help with

an idea (4) 16 Clever start for

Sylvester? (3) 17 Drop in and see everybody (4)

19 In China, a girl conceals love (4)

21 He seeks to please, but makes Ena dismal (6,3) 23 Cordial not particularly hot (4)

24 Untidy eating

place? (4) 26 Inexperienced person with some weak ideas (3)

27 The chairman’s

daughter? (4) 29 Place in a difficult situation (4) 32 A patch of sea,

really? (4) 33 Let a learner

relax (5) 34 Nominally a girl after some man? (6) 35 Fated to be flung out of the street, indeed! (8)

36 Though full of steak in extremes of gaiety, quick to complain (6)

DOWN

1 Craig hiding in Havana, perhaps (5)

2 A passion that’s

burning (5) 3 Many confess to being short (4) 4 Brassy looking, a bird can be beautiful (5) 5 Change the hose, it’s worn (4)

6 Without working, accepting a number greedily (6) 9 One may wish them to be sweet (6) 11 Youngster quietly raised (3)

12 Name that’s so wrong for a jalopy (5) 13 Figures a woman to be in difficulty (7) 15 He has a part in

Pygmalion (3) 16 So a motherless man has a relationship (3)

18 How tormentedly I dream of love (6)

20 A billiard shot to queue up for? (5)

21 Being loaded, he always has some women (3)

22 It has its vacationist side (3)

23 Victor’s a

champion! (6) 25 No negative

rules (3) 28 Cash for the

game (5) 30 They’re taken to be conscientious (5)

31 Is inclined to start trying conclusions (5) 32 Just a marginal

cough? (4) 33 Unwilling to give much for a bit of help (4)