TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

3 Form (5)

8 Wall painting (5) 10 Black and blue (5) 11 Auction item (3) 12 Haughty (5)

13 Shorn (7)

15 Repasts (5) 18 Massage (3) 19 Episodic tale (6) 21 Spools (7) 22 Mountain lake (4) 23 Curve (4) 24 Populated (7) 26 Oarsmen (6) 29 Cushion (3) 31 Ballroom dance (5) 32 Vends (7) 34 Wandered (5) 35 Man’s name (3) 36 Criminal (5)

37 Not married (5) 38 Russian autocrats (5)

DOWN

1 Tyrannical type (5) 2 Afterwards (5,2) 4 Animal group (4) 5 Showy feathers (6) 6 Duck (5)

7 House (5)

9 Fish eggs (3)

12 Small stones (7) 14 Young bear (3) 16 Intended (5)

17 Chute (5)

17 Broke suddenly (7) 20 Begin (5)

21 Muscular strength (5) 23 Sheets, etc (7)

24 Trial prints (6) 25 Youth (3)

27 Curses (5)

28 Wading bird (5) 30 Take up again (5) 32 Juicy fruit (4) 33 Statute (3)

ACROSS

3 One woven by Welsh (5)

8 But he can possibly be cowed (5)

10 Having its ups and downs, naturally (5)

11 To love furthermore (3)

12 But such a match is no Test (5)

13 Against the bar? (7)

15 When things become comparatively dead? (5) 18 Ski manufacturer’s name (3)

19 Do something involving determination (6) 21 Shy looking eyes? (7)

22 Remain only a quarter hour old? (4)

23 Knotty one to negotiate ? (4)

24 Piece of work from Maples possibly (7) 26 Hi-De-Hi holidaymaker? (6)

29 It swims up to “25 Down” (3)

31 Take a humble position like Neil (5)

32 Work in the garden (7)

34 Emits erratically on occasions (5)

35 Over brief (3)

36 Very young, as a woman points out (5)

37 One who just has to confess? (5)

38 Very uncomfortable stretchers (5)

DOWN

1 He doesn’t keep what he knows to himself (5) 2 Put down cheap wine in front of someone (7) 4 Foreign cherry extract (4)

5 Great school members (6)

6 Cillar changes colour (5)

7 Held fast by something fishy? (5)

9 Flour centre, nominally (3)

12 Saintly surname (7)

14 Match nobody wins? (3)

16 Animal of which it’s wrong for Germany to lose

many (5)

17 Fully prepared for the reckoning? (5) 19 Tradesman hanging around? (7)

20 Girl’s smart book-end (5)

21 Mostly purplish feather (5)

23 Loud cries in camera? (7)

24 She sends Les and Ian crazy! (6)

25 Not to windward of the fleet (3)

27 Pub or station messenger (5)

28 It’s safe to run out (5)

30 Tried a change when fed up (5)

32 Take to be timber (4)

33 Person of amiable nature (3)

EASY PUZZLE

ACROSS: 1, Stark; 6, Tubby; 9, Hideous; 10, Allot; 11, Needy; 12, Lured; 13, Benefit; 15, Pet; 17, Iron; 18, Mulish; 19, Devil; 20, Travel; 22, Boar; 24, Hod; 25, Shorten; 26, Right; 27, Flood; 28, Livid; 29, Secures; 30, Tried; 31, Tells.

DOWN: 2, Teller; 3, Rarity; 4, Kit; 5, Desire; 6, Tuneful; 7, Used; 8, Badges; 12, Libel; 13, Birth; 14, Nomad; 15, Pilot; 16, Thorn; 18, Might; 19, Decided; 21, Roller; 22, Bruise; 23, Aerial; 25, Shout; 26, Rose; 28, Let.

CRYPTIC PUZZLE

ACROSS: 1, Punch; 6, Patch; 9, Rainer; 10, Limit; 11, A-m-end; 12, Funny; 13, Papers; 15, Fed; 17, I-Des; 18, St-ride; 19, Dates; 20, Closer 22, Mass; 24, Hen; 25, S-evil-le; 26, Spain; 27, M-aria; 28, Bunch; 29, Dine out; 30, Steer; 31, Tense.

DOWN: 2, United; 3, Crisps; 4, Hat; 5, Angus; 6, Peanuts; 7, Army; 8, Con-Ned; 12, Friar; 13, Pitch; 14, Pe-Ron; 15, Final; 16, Dense; 18, Seven (7); 19, Despair; 21, Le-van-t; 22, Minute; 23, Slacks; 25, Sixes; 26, Side; 28, But.