CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS 1 Radioactive
element (6) 7 Absolute ruler
(8)
8 Sacks (4) 10 Routine tasks
(6)
11 Tooth covering
(6)
14 Total (3) 16 Delightful
surprise (5) 17 Girl (4)
19 Kind, category
(5)
21 Cabbage variety
(5) 22 Hoodwinked
(5)
23 Musical pitch
indicator (4) 26 Rope-making
fibre (5) 28 Insect (3) 29 Vagrants (6) 30 Rummage about
(6) 31 Precipitation
(4)
32 Make known
publicly (8) 33 Dozen (6)
DOWN 1 Rapscallion
(6)
2 He flew too near the sun (6)
3 Main part or
majority (4) 4 Nation (7) 5 Illegal act (5) 6 Walking pole
(5)
8 Gaffer (4) 9 Jewel (3) 12 Land measure
(3)
13 Bird of prey
(5) 15 Horizontal (5)
18 Afoot (5) 19 Hiatus (3) 20 Signal
agreement (3) 21 Non-metallic
element (7) 22 Weir (3) 23 Colour (6) 24 Having no fat
(4)
25 Frail (6) 26 Watch band
(5)
27 Steam bath (5) 28 Snake (3) 30 Worry (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Master switch for the current (6)
7 Like Cinerama,
possibly? (8)
8 Is suitable only in spasms (4)
10 Stage production where everything is in hazard (6) 11 One flying north, perhaps, out East? (6)
14 It can easily get out of hand (3)
16 Snooker crazy?
(5)
17 Being so low, can they really twinkle? (4) 19 Bent on looking humble (5)
21 Sole place with substantial surplus? (5) 22 Put right -- and that’s definite (5)
23 Food for disheartened pixies (4) 26 One periodically instrumental in public communication? (5)
28 Firewood?
(3)
29 One possibly in dread of being attacked (6)
30 Optimistic of swilling gin, perhaps, at the dance (6) 31 A political line?
(4)
32 A bad position to be left in (3,5)
33 Month that always finishes windy (6)
DOWN
1 Be in a sort of cold confection (6) 2 Outcasts’ former terrible lies (6)
3 It’s apt to hold
things up (4) 4 Does he swear to be a good soldier? (7) 5 Effervescent
perfume? (5) 6 Her uniform may be tiny (5)
8 Feel wrong as you run away (4)
9 Let up, Terry!
(3)
12 In stage productions, used for casting (3)
13 Study in
quietude (5) 15 How witches see a cooker (5) 18 Music drama Ted worked on (5)
19 Fight for the
best seat? (3) 20 We figure to get
united (3)
21 Eat away (4,3) 22 Endless daft style in vogue (3)
23 Hot music?
(6)
24 She’s a bit of
an eyeful! (4) 25 A small seal or baby swan, we hear (6) 26 Speak about
Erato? (5) 27 Farmer of the
bowling? (5) 28 Cunning, masked marauder? (3) 30 In Omaha, hardly a barrier? (2-2)