DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Prattle (6)

7 Journalist (8)

8 Employer (4)

10 Cheerful (6)

11 Designate (6)

14 Sheltered side (3)

16 Call on (5)

17 Eye (4)

19 Wooden peg (5)

21 Organ (5)

22 Filleted (5)

23 Yearn (4)

26 Distressed (5)

28 Container (3)

29 Beliefs (6)

30 Car shed (6)

31 Prayer ending (4)

32 Large retail store (8)

33 Thing (6)

DOWN

1 Blunder (3-3)

2 Baby’s shoe (6)

3 Gaelic (4)

4 Still (7)

5 Character (5)

6 Welcome (5)

8 Beak (4)

9 Female person (3)

12 Nothing (3)

13 Coordinate (3,2)

15 Lid (5)

18 Complaint (5)

19 Racket (3)

20 Marry (3)

21 Game of chance (7)

22 Insect (3)

23 Mother or father (6)

24 Country (4)

25 Vigour (6)

26 Complete (5)

27 Breaks (5)

28 Fruit preserve (3)

30 Match (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Sustain attempts to avoid relegation (4,2) 7 When I get beaten hollow with a club, it’s not on purpose (8) 8 The West Indies have ways to get victories (4) 10 On paper, does it give you an allowance? (6) 11 Something said about a blemish (6) 14 It can easily get out of hand (3) 16 In a way, she’s like a sultana (5) 17 It’s tough outside! (4) 19 Such English is thus written by an educated person (5) 21 Brown looks awfully good in something green (5) 22 The man run out (5) 23 The wheel is of hard wood! (4) 26 Poles are capable of catching you! (5) 28 Charge gunners a lot! (3) 29 Where, in Ireland, anybody can have a try (6) 30 In the RAF, most of them can’t fly (6) 31 Thus, on half days, one gets a drink (4) 32 See a chap angle for a water creature (8) 33 One strongly drawn to the Union cause? (6)

DOWN

1 One is unconscious of being of consuming interest (6) 2 Prepared to be demure with a boy (6) 3 Father’s the titular head no longer (4) 4 Place of exile, yes, for a Soviet head of secret police (7) 5 Started with a bang, perhaps, out East (5) 6 An edition of Keats? You bet! (5) 8 Lawrence’s bird? (4) 9 There’s nothing in backing a novice (3) 12 Master chef, initially, a Scot (3) 13 For coppers to stagger around is a repulsive thing to do! (5) 15 Can one give thanks by burning it? (5) 18 Mockery is hard on a youth leader (5) 19 To be starting trouble is a chancy thing (3) 20 His pupils wouldn’t miss him (3) 21 Said goodbye to a person understood to be bad (4,3) 22 Favouring a job in public relations (3) 23 Get tough! (6) 24 She takes me back to mum (4) 25 Threaten people with a ‘fine’ (6) 26 Be loyal to one’s staff? (5) 27 Territories that remain Anglo-Saxon (5) 28 Cypriot city, in short? (3) 30 Pallid, but able to take a shot? (4)