CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
4 Ask earnestly (6) 7 Ultimate (8) 8 Editions (6) 10 Push (5) 13 Charts (4) 14 Fish type (4) 15 Fail to win (4) 16 Cabin (3) 17 Fibber (4) 19 Fencing sword
(4)
21 Explosive
mixture (9) 23 Perishes (4) 24 Price (4) 26 Farmyard bird (3) 27 Mexican snack
(4)
29 Paradise (4) 32 Kind of ballpoint
(4)
33 Chief, most
important (5) 34 Movable (6) 35 Plot a course (8) 36 Former Spanish
currency (6)
DOWN
1 Banquet (5) 2 Fiend (5)
3 Eyelid
inflammation (4) 4 Assumed name
(5)
5 Go by (4)
6 Broad street (6) 9 Drives too fast
(6)
11 Sing with closed
lips (3)
12 Worth (5) 13 Country (7) 15 Circuit (3) 16 That woman (3) 18 Introduce
gradually (6) 20 Boy’s name (5) 21 Alcoholic spirit
(3)
22 Court (3) 23 Relegate (6)
25 Jewel (3) 28 Stadium (5) 30 Backless sofa (5) 31 At no time (5) 32 Use one’s teeth
on (4)
33 Bucket (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
4 Spheres, it seems, can be flat! (6)
7 A queen’s husband whose twins were healthy (8)
8 In the throes, there are always options (6) 10 Relieve everybody on some days (5) 13 Debatable beastly utterance by an East Ender (4) 14 The charge comes to fifty quid (4)
15 A humble, down-to-earth turner (4) 16 Figure to be in
contention (3) 17 Used bad pork
pies (4)
19 Bit of a nonentity, but soon one gets ahead (4)
21 Of an electrifying performance? (9)
23 Old sayings observed by Socrates initially (4) 24 Sack the lot, hiding nothing (4)
26 Is extracting this from jojoba a difficulty? (3) 27 In the music
trade, it’s jazz (4) 29 It may feed you a little but tell you nothing (4) 32 A drop of tea
-- right? (4)
33 A plate, mate?
(5)
34 Elbow benders
(6)
35 Painted face showing a bit of sporty characteristic (8)
36 A little man’s
deputies (6)
DOWN
1 Kind of vessel apt to sink a lot (5)
2 Maybe sat on the corner again to waste time (5) 3 Move various
ways (4)
4 Knock down for
consuming half
a loaf (5) 5 Borrowed from German, it’s true (4)
6 Put in the
shade? (6) 9 Otto cunningly gets round mum for something to eat (6)
11 One highly apt to lead to a smash (3) 12 You’ll admit there’s nothing in demolishing a wall (5) 13 Formed of units mostly produced from a mould -- right? (7)
15 United -- or possibly Wednesday? (3) 16 The height of
rhetoric (3) 18 One’s own part
arranged for
spinet (6) 20 Nick’s not a
companion (5) 21 Its driver usually has the knowledge (3) 22 Fish, fox or fool
(3) 23 Broadcasting on a farming matter? (6) 25 A deity for all
(3)
28 Tools for fixing broken spars (5)
30 Name incomplete on account of a bloomer (5) 31 Upright supporters of old-fashioned sea travel (5) 32 International
flier? (4)
33 Not so much a sweetheart as pretty shrewd (4)