CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
4 Buff (6) 7 Throw this at
weddings (8) 8 Freshwater
mammals (6) 10 Water jugs (5) 13 Snooker rods
(4)
14 Grain store (4) 15 Cod, for
example (4) 16 Piercing tool
(3) 17 Slimming plan
(4)
19 Outer layer of
bacon (4) 21 Help (4,1,4) 23 Entrance (4) 24 Hollow (4) 26 Man’s best
friend (3) 27 Finished (4) 29 Revise (4) 32 Prison (4) 33 Stadium (5) 34 Works dough
(6) 35 Borrowing
charge (8) 36 Firework type
(6)
DOWN
1 Land measures
(5)
2 Heavenly
messenger (5) 3 Untidy state
(4)
4 Godly (5) 5 Plenty (4) 6 Canny (6) 9 Iran’s capital
(6)
11 Hairpiece (3) 12 Cowboy display
(5)
13 Fortified
building (7) 15 Gave food to
(3)
16 Along with (3) 18 Raid or
incursion (6) 20 Bury (5) 21 Register, record
(3)
22 That woman
(3) 23 Responsibility
of (4,2) 25 Rubbish
receptacle (3) 28 Call on (5) 30 Discourage
(5)
31 Flavour (5) 32 Court card
(4)
33 Yes votes (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
4 Stolen from a game little fellow (6) 7 Something dramatic in a score, possibly (8)
8 But it may be just a single shot (6)
10 Sign meaning “free air” at some garages (5)
13 They’re thin and
spidery (4) 14 In the middle of the road, there’s an outer part! (4)
15 The history of dad’s East End (4) 16 Mr Wood of Hampstead? (3)
17 Good service from Steffi (4)
19 Eager to help out with a fiver? (4) 21 Cooked in sea
water? (4,5) 23 Security device one has on the piano? (4) 24 One in the eye?
(4)
26 Style of
direction (3) 27 Copied out of a cheap edition (4)
29 May be shut,
therefore (4) 32 A tendency to favour Smollett? (4)
33 Be derisive in a letter to a relative (5)
34 In the throes, perhaps?
Not us! (6) 35 Monk using
snares? (8) 36 Eventually done wrong? Yes! (3,3)
DOWN
1 Figure to get a
zero mark (5) 2 Start being
reformed (5) 3 How a spy is
an asset (4) 4 Figure to lose out badly in one’s affairs (5) 5 Medium
lubrication? (4) 6 The couple leveled with each other (6) 9 Get the boat in
somehow (6) 11 Tease for being
bony? (3) 12 They’re
peripheral (5) 13 Babbles about
food? (7) 15 Food wrapped in
newspaper? (3) 16 Youngster with some weak ideas (3) 18 Mend a broken
rapier (6) 20 She’s a match
for Lucifer (5) 21 Time for
school? (3) 22 Might one see it, angrily, when arrested? (3) 23 Headgear not raised in the Garden! (6) 25 Woman in a brown uniform (3)
28 Patsy’s turned
pale! (5) 30 Maybe a bit of a humdinger, albeit a bit wet (5)
31 Speak for the
people (5) 32 Take a turn, finishing the job at last (4) 33 Worn
playthings? (4)