CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
9 Shopkeeper (8)
10 Spoil (3)
11 Type of cloud (6) 12 Bicycle for two (6) 13 Skilful handling (7) 14 Formerly (4)
15 Oriental eating utensils
(10)
17 Observant (8) 18 Outstanding bravery
(7)
19 Just (4)
21 Cured fish (6)
24 Tolkien novel trilogy
(3,4,2,3,5)
27 Small tower (6)
29 Lazy (4)
30 Slices of bacon (7) 33 Brown sugar (8) 35 Multiplied by four
(10)
36 Horse’s gait (4)
37 Fate (7)
38 Very small (6)
40 Yearly records (6) 41 Utilise (3)
42 Make more acceptable
(8)
DOWN
1 Aloofness (10) 2 Hairless (4) 3 Climbing plant (8) 4 Foreword (7) 5 Reliable (11) 6 Funeral director (10) 7 Suave (6)
8 Point of time (8) 10 Less (5) 16 Trailblazer (7) 20 Terrible (5)
22 Fist fight (5-2) 23 Sailing trophy (8,3) 25 Bizarre (10)
26 Movie audition (6,4) 28 Faultless (8)
31 Ill feeling (8) 32 Infantile (7) 34 Crowd scene actors
(6)
35 Rather (5)
39 Louse eggs (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 Snarl up the net badly
that you fish with (8) 10 Overstated the number
(3)
11 Get a bit worried on
going round (6)
12 Are noisy, which does
upset one (6) 13 Reproaches oneself about having spent foolishly (7)
14 Lap speed that’s fast
(4)
15 Didn’t dwell on its having been transferred to (6,4)
17 He’s willing to try to get
the list back (8) 18 Writing groovy music
for the film? (7)
19 The lady-love is in
Ireland (4)
21 Followed the girl in,
you conclude (6)
24 The doctor will tell you avoiding stress has a cheering effect (4,4,5,4)
27 For which you take a holiday, having a little money? (6)
29 A great number got
away (4)
30 Brighten when you solve the mystery (5,2)
33 Happenings during the performers’ entrances? (6-2)
35 No doubt drunk and needing to be sorted out (10)
36 Going back to quarters
to study (4)
37 Showing directness where many wandered around (7)
38 Parking inside not very
well but fast (6)
40 Right to go in and have something to eat (6) 41 Speaking French, yes,
a little (3)
42 With a string of curses, trapped now, fights (8)
DOWN
1 Mad to find one’s accounts not coming out even? (10) 2 Some net return
(4)
3 Undertook, though enraged, to mend the hole in (6,2) 4 Scold for always
standing around (7) 5 “Being more successful than is good for you” is overstating it (5,3,3) 6 First agree about its being in keeping with (10)
7 Spill the beans, when
back, about her (6) 8 Show on the record that you are beaten by (8)
10 Customer the pub gets the highest return from? (5)
16 Do patients keep coming in streams to him? (7)
20 Remains while the
female hides inside (5) 22 Keeping a key to get
into the shop (7) 23 Don’t ask me! Your answers may come from above! (6,5) 25 Information leaked about the golf tournament? (4,6) 26 Like the villain, originally fair, who went ginger, than black? (6-4)
28 Deceive the gangster
with the signal (8)
31 An incentive to the bird to visit your garden? (8)
32 Bird of a strange sort
I found in Germany (7) 34 Mother, you have to dress, eat and run!
(6)
35 Took a swing at -- goaded
one into (5) 39 Constrained to send
back an import (4)