CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Chase (6) 7 Uproar (8) 8 Search (4) 10 Instruments
(6)
11 Till (6)
14 Help (3) 16 Hoodwinks
(5)
17 Notified (4) 19 Italian river
(5) 21 Detection
system (5) 22 Two-footed (5) 23 Shortly (4) 26 Rapiers (5) 28 Hat (3)
29 Golf term (6) 30 Comfort (6) 31 Labour (4) 32 Jewellery (8) 33 Penetrate (6)
DOWN
1 Shrub (6) 2 Phlegmatic
(6)
3 Recedes (4) 4 Former currency
(7)
5 Relish (3,2) 6 Walkways (5) 8 Fossil fuel (4) 9 Insane (3) 12 Belonging to
us (3)
13 Lizard (5) 15 Broaden (5) 18 African mammal
(5)
19 Faucet (3)
20 Evil (3) 21 Ludicrous (7) 22 Cradle (3) 23 Salty (6) 24 Gemstone (4) 25 Stylus (6) 26 Wood (5) 27 Upright (5) 28 Dove’s call (3) 30 Pace (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Where there’s a steady job for a lad? (6) 7 Cavalier poet’s fondness for fine fabric (8)
8 A Welshman’s
platform? (4) 10 Evident cockiness in making a comeback (6) 11 If pelf is redistributed, that’s nonsense!
(6)
14 Poem of the wooden horse (3)
16 Civic official who means nothing in the army, maybe (5)
17 A London orchestra too! (4)
19 Where, in Italy, mail is sorted for the north (5)
21 Necessary bit of tea in a little bottle (5)
22 At a dead end, a new idea helped (5) 23 Went fast - yet at disheartening speed? (4) 26 How Al and Ted got together and did business (5)
28 As chairman, did he master the opposition leader? (3) 29 Hiding nothing, Claud’s upset about the
National Front (6)
30 Caper involving “27” possibly divided by 5 (6)
31 The state a salt
lake is in (4) 32 On the road, cautionary advice to pedestrians who appear abandoned (4,4)
33 One quarter of the garden is foreign soil (6)
DOWN
1 Where, abroad, rabies is regulated (6) 2 Actor’s chaff at
a party (6) 3 She gives you
the option (4) 4 Can be claimed to have its point (7)
5 It’s silly making a lot of noise when the light goes out (5) 6 He has to look out for the best conclusion (5)
8 Do they do us wrong in the doubles? (4)
9 I see a key as something cold (3)
12 Fresh air
devotee? (3) 13 Live in an old ruin at some stage (5) 15 Shaky times for tiny tots (5)
18 Stir up evil, perhaps, on the way (5) 19 This way for a Pacific atoll (3)
20 The youth some
girl adores (3) 21 Essentially, get the girl to agree (7)
22 One has 50 left, that’s the lot (3)
23 Lily’s wild! (6) 24 Cry of disdain
from Winnie (4) 25 Keep in date,
cleverly (6) 26 Brightly
contradicted (5) 27 Player on a court getting nothing right (5)
28 Might it welcome being trodden on? (3) 30 Economies on
meat? (4)