TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
3 Group of wives (5) 8 Young female horse (5) 10 Allude (5)
11 Meadow (3)
12 Male singer (5) 13 Severely affected (7) 15 Nightclub (5)
18 Male cat (3)
19 Tie up (6)
21 Panther (7)
22 Islamic ruler (4) 23 Operatic song (4) 24 Portion (7) 26 Happenings (6) 29 Marker (3)
31 Optical maser (5) 32 Flooded (7)
34 Send (5)
35 Man’s name (3) 36 Urbane (5)
37 Edition (5) 38 Anaesthetic (5)
DOWN
1 Movies (5)
2 Praise insincerely (7) 4 So be it! (4)
5 Worn away (6) 6 Deserve (5)
7 Two, in cards (5) 9 Hawaiian garland (3) 12 Places of worship (7) 14 Also (3)
16 Clothing item (5) 17 Keyboard instrument
(5)
19 Wind instrument (7) 20 Even (5) 21 Biographies (5) 23 Mental torture (7) 24 Road (6)
25 Fish (3)
27 Worth (5)
28 Cheek (5)
30 Planet (5) 32 Disastrous (4) 33 Vapours (3)
ACROSS
3 A choice of question (5)
8 See a debtor cringe! (5)
10 But with hock, it doesn’t have red berries (5)
11 It’s used in varnishing the place (3)
12 Contradict a crazed brute (5)
13 Like a wonderful fellow (7)
15 Come again out of mere curiosity (5)
18 Drink little one (3)
19 Refer to everybody with due potential (6) 21 Appealing little notices (4,3)
22 Charred or not, it’s black (4)
23 Underwater weapon? (4)
24 As eaten with great pleasure in Turkey (7)
26 One cannily starting the poker game? (6) 29 Teacher is wrong, yet right! (3)
31 The famous person Orpen became? (5)
32 Fit for holding, like Maggie’s job? (7)
34 Six for each snake (5)
35 She’ll prosecute (3)
36 Strange rites or essays (5)
37 Tom’s drinking companion (5)
38 Direction players are not quick to follow (5)
DOWN
1 One can get along from these heights! (5)
2 New article given to listener (7)
4 A cad one may turn on (4)
5 Only oats, but they heartily have their fling! (6) 6 Accommodation for TV actors (5)
7 Being under one can put damper on things (5) 9 One who jokes at wages being cut? (3)
12 It’s shaky and snaky (7)
14 Italian with a little girl (3)
16 Measure a youngster for it (5)
17 Allude to a freer arrangement (5)
19 But he didn’t warn Sid not to tankle with Vera! (7) 20 Story of the Co-ops? (5)
21 Fire extinguisher (5)
23 Expressions used by seraph (7)
24 She is in need, possibly (6)
25 Drink of which Hill may get a Big one! (3)
27 Fruit a person can get on with (5)
28 New reading (5)
30 Ready to alter, possibly (5)
32 Some light entertainment in camp (4) 33 Something seedy in need to a rub up (3)
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Packet; 7, Appetite; 8, M-ill; 10, Slovak; 11, Umpire; 14, Ned (den); 16, Ailed; 17, Seas (sees); 19, M-ari-e; 21, Hat-Ed; 22, Aided; 23, Pays; 26, B-Land; 28, Fog; 28, Leste-R; 30, Elleen; 31, Axis; 32, Redoubts; 33, Eyeful.
DOWN: 1, Passes; 2, (jack) Knives; 3, Talk; 4, Mermaid; 5, Civil; 6, Mewed; 8, Mona; 9, Lad; 12, Pie; 13, Ready; 15, Dated; 18, Eagle; 19, MA-D; 20, Red; 21, Hide-O-us; 22, Ant; 23, Police; 24, Ages; 25, Sand-Al; 26, Blare (Blair); 27, Aside; 28, Fix; 30, Ease.
EASY PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Rabbit; 7, Oblivion; 8, Film; 10, Birdie; 11, Recede; 14, Old; 16, Nadir; 17, Rage; 19, Elect; 21, Clare; 22, Mafia; 23, Fans; 26, Solar; 28, Tax; 29, Prayer; 30, Teller; 31, Hate; 32, Macaroni; 33, Normal.
DOWN: 1, Rubber; 2, Bridle; 3, Tome; 4, Silence; 5, Mixed; 6, Under; 8, Frog; 12, Cat; 13, Divan; 15, Plain; 18, Actor; 19, Elf; 20, Era; 21, Careers; 22, May; 23, Falter; 24, Axle; 25, Serial; 26, Spume; 27, Lance; 28, Tea; 30, Thin.