CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
4 Long step or pace (6) 7 Set of letters (8) 8 Quantity (6) 10 Coil, spin (5) 13 Tot (4) 14 Locate (4) 15 Stink (4) 16 Mineral (3) 17 Man’s name (4) 19 Slippery fishes (4) 21 Run off hastily (9) 23 Repose (4) 24 Opposite of bad (4) 26 Morning moisture (3) 27 Soon (4) 29 Flat (4) 32 Big cat (4) 33 First-rate (5) 34 Japanese garment (6) 35 Strap worn in a car (4,4) 36 Cut a tooth (6)
DOWN
1 Stops (5) 2 Cleave (5) 3 Boat of logs (4) 4 Gaze fixedly (5) 5 Space (4) 6 People who give blood (6) 9 Manage with limited means (4,2) 11 Toupee (3) 12 Searches (5) 13 Ten-sided figure (7) 15 Free (3) 16 Spanish cry (3) 18 Keep hold of (6) 20 Senior (5) 21 Stitch (3) 22 Mafia boss (3) 23 Resuscitate (6) 25 Jewel (3) 28 Hangman’s halter (5) 30 Female fox (5) 31 Amphibians (5) 32 Plunder (4) 33 Meat paste (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
4 They’re jolly good fun chaps! (6) 7 See the money’s ready (4,4) 8 Quadruple the score (6) 10 It’s nothing for wild bees to be overweight (5) 13 It means a lot to a fellow on the fourth of July (4) 14 Rubbish may be shot here (4) 15 The present talent? (4) 16 Lady robbed of money, upset for a time (3) 17 Skip in from Italy (4) 19 The image a coin may show (4) 21 To him, we may sound agreeable (9) 23 Wild acts by domesticated felines (4) 24 Helped, albeit heartlessly, when given attention (4) 26 Chuck seems a bit pushy (3) 27 Kill, say, about fifty (4) 29 A bird might see it as food (4) 32 Stick around Midway, a Pacific island (4) 33 Just the sort of necklace for a girl (5) 34 Soldiers can make sport out of love! (6) 35 Jumping over a rope (8) 36 A suggestion that we attend cinema releases? (4,2)
DOWN
1 Royal meeting in Nova Scotia (5) 2 Seems sad composing poems (5) 3 The longing teachers have at heart (4) 4 A corny group in the country field (5) 5 Some indoor gymnastics, Roman style? (4) 6 Painter in the red? (6) 9 Punctual, eventually? (2,4) 11 Sort of seat to fight for? (3) 12 Lacking money, possibly shy (5) 13 In the London area, you can get to the match by motorway (7) 15 Spirit of clarity (3) 16 Put on the river? (3) 18 For a cat to turn up with me, could spoil things (4,2) 20 No gentleman, at some stage, will beg (5) 21 She sounds a bit faint (3) 22 At the end of the day, he gives a cry (3) 23 Cost of a military action? (6) 25 The curate’s dog? (3) 28 Using it, may a cowboy miss nothing? (5) 30 Quick raid capturing the pierhead (5) 31 He was a bit of a blighter to the crew (5) 32 Gallery deities? (4) 33 Dad’s double (4)