CROSSWORD

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

ACROSS

3 Set (5)

8 Month (5) 10 Indian monetary

unit (5) 11 Rodent (3)

12 Of the moon

(5)

13 Weapon (7) 15 Courage (5) 18 Fastener (3) 19 Waited (6) 21 Questionable

(7)

22 Wading bird (4) 23 Boat (4) 24 Breathing

device (7) 26 Brigand (6) 29 Bone (3) 31 Throng (5) 32 Repel (7) 34 Dismay (5) 35 Equipment (3) 36 Spoor (5) 37 Man’s name (5) 38 Recently (5)

DOWN

1 Unit of purity (5) 2 Sea creature

(7)

4 Defeat (4) 5 Planet (6) 6 Pulped food (5) 7 Rummage (5) 9 Beam (3) 12 Tolerant (7) 14 Pen part (3) 16 Rustic (5) 17 Revises (5) 19 Disagreement

(7)

20 Arms (5) 21 Girl’s name (5) 23 Reprimands (7) 24 Elementary (6) 25 Sleep (3) 27 Prize (5) 28 Sewer (5) 30 Flower (5) 32 Complain (4) 33 Illuminated (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Simply has to exist in numbers, in deep space (5)

8 Where to duck out of the bar and get a haircut? (5) 10 Getting drunk is difficult on such a budget (5)

11 Not many are

in safe work (3) 12 A classic language some ladies preserve (5)

13 Generous amount of heavy sarcasm? (1,3,3) 15 Business people strong on safety first (5)

18 Is it after a goal, in rugby, that one is scored? (3) 19 Not quite a 50

majority (6) 21 Food a foreigner takes with a bit of sauce (7) 22 Pennies from

heaven (4) 23 Plant yielding gum out East (4)

24 Crossed a hill crest in the outskirts of Brentwood (7) 26 When a girl is just about free for the weekend? (6) 29 A little matter

for one to get

on with (3) 31 Great man capable of corrupt taint (5) 32 To stain badly in

one place (7) 34 Assemble at the railhead, mate (5)

35 Fluid of a

certain kind (3) 36 The female some men are after, has polish (5)

37 Turbine components redesigned by Evans (5) 38 Game with

many skills (5)

DOWN

1 An orange spot

on the map (5) 2 Mild reproof of a two-timer? (3,4) 4 Race in the amphitheatre (4)

5 Is felt mistakenly to suppress (6) 6 Note this little

lot! (5)

7 Friends collecting a sum for the church (5)

9 Less than a

clear field? (3) 12 Draw more than one animal (7)

14 Left the thing

switched on (3) 16 Rambled around

Dover (5) 17 Defeat and

dismiss (5) 19 A department finishing the festivity with stomach trouble (7) 20 Doctor possibly fit to be a tenor (5)

21 Eight drinks?

(5)

23 A plant no lady has a name for (7) 24 Couldn’t you put one straight on the boat? (6) 25 Indian gorilla deprived of water (3)

27 A blow on the

side (5) 28 Challenged many a socialist (5)

30 Fireside game?

(5)

32 Cut, removing a slight amount! (4)

33 It provides accommodation in the detention centre (3)