CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
8 Gold bars (7)
9 Disease of blood (9) 13 Moist (5)
14 Main part of body (5) 15 Betrayal (7)
16 Native (7)
17 Trap (5)
18 Young bird of prey (5) 20 Uniform fabric (5) 22 Criticise (6)
23 Make over (6) 25 Silvery-white mineral
(7)
27 Coarse (7)
30 Again (6)
31 Hunting expedition (6) 32 Beau (5)
35 South American rodent
(5)
36 Delivery (5) 37 Self-propelled weapon
(7)
39 Went back (7) 41 Additional thing (5) 42 Greek letter (5) 43 Luxurious car (9) 44 Compensates (7)
DOWN
1 Aromatic spice (6) 2 Sword lilies (8) 3 Tending to argue (11) 4 Documentary style
(9)
5 Superficial (7)
6 Kindly (10)
7 Prejudice (4)
10 Shrill cry (6)
11 Maxim (7)
12 Informer (6) 19 Communication
between groups (7) 21 General lawlessness
(7)
24 Difficult problem (5-6) 26 Surly person (10) 28 Having shrewd
judgement (3-6) 29 Newspaper (7) 30 Protective vehicle (6) 32 Time something lasts
(8) 33 Signals officer (6) 34 Jewish language (7) 38 Excuse (6) 40 Fastening device (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 Something you could
sing but don’t (7)
9 Not wishing to become a shooting target! (6-3)
13 Pretend the pound note is coming back (3,2)
14 Employed by the hotel
I had left (5)
15 Offers the caretakers
(7)
16 Is attracted by, yet
attacks verbally (4,3) 17 Run to time, you find
(5)
18 Cat that will jump on
the piano (5)
20 The animal, making a row, started growling inside (5)
22 “They’re worth money,”
the twit put in (6) 23 Powders in jars (6) 25 It will bring the rain one
day shortly (7)
27 One or two, having had
the meal, run off (7) 30 They produce straight
lines of monarchs (6) 31 Approaching the
Chinese firm first (6) 32 The expensive car
registers (5)
35 Seem proud to be responsible for the hold-up (5)
36 Need roughly about a day to get it completed (5)
37 A little phone call from the hairdresser’s? (7)
39 The drunk’s dog?
(7)
41 She set it in the heart
of Granada (5) 42 Did he do some gardening on the day he was knighted? (5)
43 An article by a make-up man would be in order (5,4)
44 Glared at the boat that
was in front (7)
DOWN
1 Pay for when you fix
(6)
2 Move across to the referee standing by (8)
3 Treachery at the top?
(4,7)
4 Do the king and queen
attend? (4,5) 5 Are told to accommodate the girl (7)
6 Sea water or where it usually comes from (4,6)
7 That’s the English for
you! (4)
10 Slender and small,
not weighing much (6) 11 Beef will go off that’s the nuisance about it (7)
12 Write “The animal is hiding in the trees” (6)
19 Serve badly in the game
(7)
21 Cab --- or its driver who
got a bad tip (7)
24 A fast walk (6,5) 26 Delete from the incorrect chart the scout is holding (7,3) 28 An eligible bachelor?
No miss, indeed (4,5) 29 Dad is wrong in showing
scorn (7)
30 A little more sultry, as a
consequence (6) 32 Reads swiftly through the column and criticises it (4,4)
33 Is he fixing the hair of
the dog? (6)
34 The new version is a brightly coloured float (7)
38 Goes off to get the
sheets (6)
40 The girl from Redstone
(4)