CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES ACROSS

3 Iron clothes (5) 8 Wooden peg (5) 10 Jewelled ornamental band (5) 11 Decompose (3) 12 Vital organ (5) 13 Inorganic matter

(7)

15 Keen (5) 18 Groove (3)

19 Of the sea (6) 21 A holy place (7) 22 Flat (4)

23 Plan or contrive

secretly (4) 24 Scoffs at (7) 26 Final result (6) 29 Toothed wheel

(3)

31 Lustre (5) 32 Principal

bullfighter (7) 34 Tag (5)

35 Total (3)

36 So far (2,3) 37 Naked figures

(5) 38 Requirements

(5)

DOWN

1 Boy’s name (5) 2 Old soldier (7) 4 Spool (4) 5 Small river (6) 6 Indian stringed

instrument (5) 7 Clean feathers

(5)

9 Was victorious

(3)

12 Short axe (7) 14 Manage (3) 16 Lasses (5) 17 Puts one’s feet

up (5) 19 Melodious (7) 20 Planet (5) 21 Perceive (5) 23 Mythical winged

horse (7)

24 Give to charity

(6)

25 Speck (3) 27 Stage (5) 28 Girl’s name (5) 30 Curved roofs (5) 32 Fix (4)

33 Squib (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Mob apt to exult at the grand finale (5) 8 Annoyed by a shifty pest at the youth centre (5)

10 Given the gun?

(5)

11 Dad’s not

French! (3)

12 A place useless to abbreviate (5)

13 Not the Siegfried line of defence (7) 15 Dangerously animal-like? (5)

18 An engagement for Joe at Gateshead (3) 19 Fall for a doctor during a lute composition (6)

21 Possible new part of town (7)

22 She left a mug

(4)

23 Look closely and you’ll see its equal (4) 24 Almost hoping for pain relief (7)

26 Like an egg

from Islay? (6) 29 Pull the plug, but not quietly! (3) 31 One stimulant in a hundred, I see (5) 32 Creature the French figure to be Chinese (7) 34 Device encountered at the end of the pier (5)

35 Long time, albeit less than average (3) 36 One goes to it

head down (5) 37 Unsuitable use of some turpentine (5) 38 This material’s tough, one may imagine (5)

DOWN

1 Horrify a very quiet little chap (5)

2 Gives up

making a small entry in the rules (7) 4 Bottom of the

kangaroo tail (4) 5 Do a dishy job

(4,2)

6 Think fondly of a wee drink out East (5) 7 She’s got the right angle on fruit (5)

9 Show weariness as you turn the gas up (3) 12 How hags make

pigswill (7) 14 Not a witty type!

(3)

16 He wrote, using special nibs, about the Norwegian centre (5) 17 Long yarn about England’s capital (5) 19 The following

vehicle (7)

20 At Beachy Head, the most recent high wind (5) 21 Villa site (5) 23 Taking the beer round, Meg can be colourful (7) 24 You’ll admit it can mean “swallow” (6) 25 Odd ingredient

of frumenty (3) 27 They cover the head milk producers out of cash (5) 28 Square, on

occasions? (5) 30 Breaks into

pictures (5) 32 Can be green as a meadow at Flamborough Head (4) 33 Strong feeling of tiredness? (3)