CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
8 Caretaker (7)
9 Lung disease (9) 13 Pinny (5)
14 Smithy (5) 15 Caribbean country (7) 16 Slope (7)
17 Imitate (5) 18 Rearrange (5) 20 Severe (5)
22 Sum (6)
23 Throwing event (6) 25 Brief confused fight
(7)
27 Come together forcibly
(7)
30 Secret (6)
31 Crockery item (6) 32 Drying cloth (5) 35 Concur (5)
36 View (5)
37 Sketch (7) 39 Motorcycle attachment
(7)
41 Indian language (5) 42 Loft (5)
43 Mistrust (9)
44 Stays (7)
DOWN
1 Material (6) 2 Diabolical (8) 3 Furniture item (6,5) 4 Weaken insidiously
(9)
5 Topic (7)
6 TV advert (10) 7 Sound system (2-2) 10 Prodigal (6) 11 Shade of red (7) 12 Scottish dish (6) 19 Bird (7)
21 Get better (7) 24 Trucker (5,6) 26 External staircase
(4,6)
28 Lie (9)
29 Thin and bony (7) 30 Unrefined (6) 32 Unruly youth (8) 33 Bequest (6) 34 Greediness (7) 38 Mean (6)
40 Percussion instrument (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 The dope -- the real
silly -- is an officer (7) 9 Speaking out and
admitting (7,2)
13 Gather the mother animal plays a protective role (5) 14 Take advantage of the ‘9’ to register (5)
15 Entertainer who’s first rate all round, potentially (7)
16 Was a smuggler, too,
but a loser (4-3)
17 Send right back a while
after (5)
18 A pail put out to catch the rain in spring (5)
20 Type and prepare to
post (5)
22 Having bought, though about a quarter is on credit (6)
23 Tail the animal had
caught in (6)
25 Do, kind of, have a
partner (7)
27 From Somerset, he’d taken the daughter in the car (7)
30 Twig it’s some sort of
electrical device (6) 31 Make your way slowly to table at half past (6)
32 Well known for having sporadically done time in (5)
35 About to enter the facts,
is new to it (5) 36 Contacts with the mobs
(5)
37 Certain to put the question to, by hook or by crook (7)
39 Informs one about every
setback (7) 41 Give to the new-formed
party therein (5) 42 Stand outside quarters in a state of the jitters (5)
43 It’s in need of a
sharpener, silly! (9) 44 Arranged as instructed
to (7)
DOWN
1 Awards the lads
harassed me over (6) 2 Happens to mention, when rentals decrease (4,4)
3 Understand and rescue the shipwreck victim? (4,2,5)
4 Meant to assemble
some in the home (9) 5 Also mount up slowly
(7)
6 Single and not stuck on
anybody? (10) 7 Returning the cakes
would be an insult (4) 10 Bother to tell you which
tweed it is (6) 11 Looking smart, are
almost all in (7)
12 The chap dropped round at the beginning of the week (6) 19 Notice, when the train moves out, looking very happy (7)
21 Poison one is about
to mix into (7)
24 What an argument winner will have, being smart (3,4,4) 26 Having time to give to
the old (6-4)
28 Relax when on the witness box? No problem! (5,4) 29 Beefy one posted to
patrol around (7) 30 Sees what the guidebooks said to see (6)
32 Just as glossy as before, but that’s all right (2,6)
33 Occurred to the shaky new father holding it (6)
34 At “hair of the dog,”
become angry (7) 38 Given to, had clutched
the wrong end (6)
40 A cat scrap (4)