CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Protect (6) 7 Brolly (8) 8 Space inside a
roof (4) 10 Weekday (6) 11 Expand (6) 14 Harden (3) 16 Flanks (5) 17 Rodents (4) 19 Wanderer (5) 21 Voucher (5) 22 Mannequin (5) 23 Repose (4) 26 With reference
to (2,3) 28 Charge (3) 29 Monarch’s chair
(6)
30 Money holder
(6)
31 Epochs (4) 32 Steep downward plunge (4,4) 33 Bits (6)
DOWN
1 Vary (6)
2 Wears away (6) 3 Tax on imports
(4)
4 Craftsman (7) 5 Appeal humbly
(5)
6 Edges of a roof
(5)
8 Inventory (4) 9 Corpulent (3) 12 Removable
cover (3) 13 Canvas shelters
(5)
15 Extra playing
card (5) 18 Stupid (5) 19 Signal
agreement (3) 20 Girl’s name (3) 21 Cyclone (7) 22 A low (3)
23 Tell or narrate
(6)
24 Fishes (4) 25 Teachers (6) 26 Make amends
(5)
27 Frozen dew (5) 28 Distant (3) 30 Shed tears (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Being poor, taken to court outright? (4,2) 7 Quickly train to manoeuvre on the rink (2,1,5)
8 High wind in Bengal, especially? (4) 10 Scowl when given a shiner? (6)
11 Preserve with difficulty? (6) 14 Nevertheless,
the tango (3) 16 Was inquisitive about the numbers on keys (5)
17 It’s too expensive, darling (4) 19 Trimmed a ragged drape (5)
21 Extra burden on a bighead (5)
22 The very old friend of Pytheas, one may imagine (5)
23 Sir Peter the
painter (4) 26 One of the rasher philosophers? (5)
28 Indian tailless
goat (3) 29 You can eat it with port at some stage (6)
30 Chap almost
run out? (6) 31 Regards as a key agreement (4)
32 In carving grouse, there’s a way to be lavish (8) 33 Maybe lets us
fight (6)
DOWN
1 Given pivotal
support (6) 2 One in the
chest? (6) 3 Where, right at the end, holiday-makers got food (4)
4 A place in between tip-up seats (7) 5 For Jonah, it’s said, high ones are fun (5) 6 What the cat did on finding me married (5)
8 Move less than a yard with Francisco (4)
9 Permitted degree of subtlety (3) 12 Fish for immediate payment (3) 13 The French girl is perfectly proper (5) 15 Cleric in the
official list (5) 18 Did he compose “In a Hotel Garden”? (5) 19 Little dog who’ll be quiet when ordered? (3) 20 Rush to ruin?
Not I! (3) 21 Pyrotechnical
sausages? (7) 22 Put on or perform a Chopin finale (3)
23 Is none of them called Victor? (6)
24 Dines in great
style (4)
25 An American
jerked? (6) 26 Lad holding a horse where the going’s very soft! (5) 27 Fanny’s clever
rhyme (5) 28 Nominally a stuffy figure? (3)
30 Humour achieving sublimity during May? (4)