CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Explosion (5) 8 Conspiracy (5) 10 Fertile spot (5) 11 Groove (3) 12 Jeans fabric (5) 13 Permits,
tolerates (7) 15 Post off (5) 18 Managed (3) 19 Former currency
(6)
21 Afternoon show
(7)
22 Sully (4) 23 Public pool (4) 24 Shortage (7) 26 Insight (6) 29 Small feline
mammal (3) 31 Tree sap (5) 32 Cautious (7) 34 Senior member
(5)
35 To free (3) 36 Moroccan
capital (5) 37 Detests (5) 38 Chairs (5)
DOWN
1 Farm buildings
(5)
2 Unstudied (7) 4 Fibs (4)
5 Private evening
party (6) 6 Domesticates
(5)
7 Finger or toe (5) 9 Unopened
flower (3) 12 Inhabitant (7) 14 Rodent (3) 16 Deserve (5) 17 Sharply hooked
claw (5) 19 Aquatic bird (7) 20 Academy Award
(5)
21 Take away (5) 23 Word for word
(7)
24 Indicate,
designate (6) 25 Vehicle (3) 27 Tree type (5) 28 Legendary king
(5)
30 Naked figures
(5)
32 US coin (4) 33 In good health
(3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Choose possibly to take Lee to court (5)
8 It’s rough being right in a mess! (5)
10 Tough master embraced by a female (2-3) 11 Bit of a grimace
from a Scot (3) 12 Was Gertrude
a mug? (5) 13 Clip one unfairly
in a game (7) 15 Full of pith, yet not vegetable (5) 18 Continental street of sadness (3) 19 Goes into business to create upsets (4,2)
21 Barely runs on narrow lines (7)
22 Goddess who
lives again? (4) 23 French name for a bit of a renegade (4) 24 The fear possibly associated with a white one? (7) 26 Try to get free
perhaps? (3,3) 29 Strain a gut?
(3)
31 Possibly early bird at the egg farm (5) 32 Canada’s ratable system (7)
34 Worried about
the future? (5) 35 It doesn’t agree with the number on a tin opener (3) 36 Something a woman’s burnt? (5)
37 A canoe could
be lost in it (5) 38 A long piece can still be comic (5)
DOWN
1 Urchin who hasn’t finished playing (5) 2 Costers’ companions? (7) 4 Galatea’s keeping us waiting (4) 5 Rings you can get from most chemists (6) 6 Doctrine you
can read up (5) 7 Language usable for a letter to an aunt (5)
9 Managed to participate in athletics? (3) 12 Possibly restless peelers? (7) 14 Charlie has half an hour with the dog (3) 16 Eastern floral
centre (5) 17 Where some Belgians are in the money, presumably (5) 19 Quickly get out in the alley! (7) 20 Latest thing in
ties (5)
21 One corner in heaven that’s just like velvet (5)
23 In historical times, wonderfully green outskirts of the City (7)
24 Woody ways into a well-defended place (6) 25 Centre of
revolution (3) 27 Impertinent, say, about saints (5) 28 Good times for cash payments around Tuesday (5)
30 It’s essentially oily and flowery (5)
32 A fantastic
wine? (4)
33 A bit fishy, but
heroes use it (3)