CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Lampoon (5) 8 Helicopter blade

(5)

10 Stair part (5) 11 Blokes (3) 12 Fabric (5) 13 Splash (7) 15 Measure (5) 18 Stick (3) 19 Remove bones

from (6) 21 Nine-sided

figure (7) 22 Spool (4) 23 Legend (4) 24 Wander (7) 26 Army chaplains

(6)

29 Dark (3)

31 Girl’s name (5) 32 Ignore (7) 34 African river (5) 35 Mineral (3) 36 Amount (5) 37 Fragment (5) 38 Tile (5)

DOWN

1 Frolics (5) 2 Regulate (7) 4 Fruit (4)

5 Source (6) 6 Ultimate (5) 7 Edge (5) 9 Beverage (3) 12 Tranquillises (7) 14 Unit of weight (3) 16 Lesion (5) 17 Mentality (5) 19 Fail (7) 20 Stumbles (5) 21 Requires (5) 23 Poisonous

plant (7) 24 Servile (6) 25 Burrow (3) 27 Bode (5) 28 Raves (5)

30 Sea (5)

32 After (4)

33 Make mistakes

(3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Does this clue look hard? You seem surprised! (5) 8 Artist, for instance, in sad disarray (5) 10 No love from a

stranger! (5) 11 Bit of a stare

from Jack (3) 12 Knobbly things in boxing gloves (5)

13 Right name for bad visibility or a cold wind (7)

15 Mummy’s rhyme for the inner man (5) 18 A bottle of chianti is too much for him (3)

19 Satisfy some people with ease (6)

21 Fit for a charge

(7)

22 Of these beasts, the wild one is about to get cross! (4) 23 Very much out of line, to be honest (4) 24 Keeps out of sight down in the valley? (4,3) 26 When an East-ender gets a bad cigar, it’s not funny (6)

29 A levy on tacks?

(3)

31 Get away from the house adjoining the mine (3,2) 32 Borrowers strode agitatedly around the head of the bank (7)

34 Avoid crashing

into trees! (5) 35 Bit of an outrage by students? (3) 36 An old one could be an ash blonde (5) 37 Attack or invasion for less than a day (5) 38 Speak rhetorically of the love for speed (5)

DOWN

1 Not an exclusive thing to do, you’ll admit (3,2) 2 Martina may be

an alien (7) 4 Work in the direction of some films (4) 5 Agitate

childishly? (6) 6 Ways for a girl

to follow (5) 7 Gangs of assorted mates (5)

9 Illuminating

talk? (3)

12 He’s mad to give a supporter a half ticket (7) 14 Suspiciously smelly blighter! (3)

16 The bird makes

mother cry (5) 17 Long time at the detention centre (5) 19 Something sticking a broken stapler? (7)

20 Maybe it’s open

for a change in the middle of the month (5) 21 To summarise, it’s about top (5)

23 A dance it takes a clever fellow to run (7) 24 Untidy little

pigs? (6) 25 Wherein chemists are short of labour? (3)

27 A snack in the

car? (5) 28 American soldier’s method of operating a device (5) 30 Possibly vital ingredient of orange squash? (5)

32 Beaten hollow

(4)

33 You pull on its

dry end (3)