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USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
9 TV series (4,5) 10 Well-off (8)
12 Wicked (4) 13 Uninteresting (6) 14 Wounds (7)
15 Type of pen (9) 17 Desecration (9)
18 Old (7)
20 Austrian city (6) 21 Group of countries (4) 24 Protective charm (8) 26 Visit habitually (8) 28 365 days (4)
29 Loved (6) 31 Abounding (7) 34 Flowering plant (9) 36 Previous example (9) 38 Debate (7)
39 Small fish (6)
40 Box in training (4) 41 Goodbye (8)
42 Cake (5,4)
DOWN
1 Gather (8)
2 Beauty treatment (6) 3 Fierceness (8)
4 Lasso (6)
5 Generosity (8)
6 Drinks shop (3-7) 7 Pastime (7)
8 Nap (6)
11 Fundamental nature (7) 16 Allow (6)
19 Play (5)
20 Vehicle (3)
22 Sudden forward motion
(5)
23 Colour (6)
25 Hi-fi (4,6)
26 Craze (3)
27 Poison (7)
30 Look like (8)
31 Oratory (8) 32 Completely (8) 33 Watered down (7) 35 Rogue (6)
36 Penalise (6) 37 Use (6)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 The flat bit on the outside, meant to reshape (9)
10 Went off at the salesman, good and angry (8)
12 Backing a horse in it,
I made a profit (4) 13 Inform, giving a few
new ideas about (6) 14 Grateful to for having
forced one’s hand (7) 15 Call for help on collapsing in the stand (9)
17 Photographed the children as they argued (4,5)
18 Cavorted while the dancer danced to a piano (7)
20 Nonsense! He’d gone into training and is very keen (3-3)
21 A longing that is hard
for one to conceal (4) 24 Off to a good start, is in a favourable position (4,4)
26 Saved by, you think,
the grass all round (8) 28 Phooey! Get back the
lead! (4)
29 Help, you idiot - it’s
come adrift! (6) 31 Totally lose your composure when they praise you (5,2) 34 Disloyal and an atheist
(9)
36 The really good wood,
treats differently (5-4) 38 Marked in, within the
arranged dates (7) 39 If his slating is awful, the house won’t be so good! (6)
40 Coming from the Greek,
it means “courage” (4) 41 An admirer who’s a
stalker? (8)
42 A fast warning to get out
from under that tree! (9)
DOWN
1 Having recovered lost ground, gets embroiled in (6,2)
2 He’s got the star role in,
in the comeback (6) 3 With the last weapon confiscated, inform you (4,4)
4 Won’t work when you try
to sound the note (6) 5 Pulled in and stopped
(8) 6 As far as “useless and with mischief in mind” (2,2,2,4)
7 Is left in the keeping of
the servant and lost (7) 8 Won’t come out in the open and say they’re boundaries? (6) 11 At this point say more about having remained faithful to (7)
16 Fix something to go
with the cold meat (6) 19 Say the time has come to use evasive tactics (5)
20 Mr X? (3)
22 Stop to make sure that
everything is all right (5) 23 Rid of all that humbug about wine bottle labels? (6)
25 Drank with, as the bird had done in the bird bath (6,4)
26 Up to R for “rubbish”
(3)
27 Claim the newspapermen have got hold of (7) 30 Anxious, though at
home safe (8) 31 Bearing the charge of
conveying (8) 32 Standing to get, is taking a break before starting (8) 33 One slurred the word
“hairstyle” (7)
35 Lined up in the air, now, doing manoeuvres (2,1,3) 36 Comparatively
impartially (6) 37 Handling well when it’s
on a bumpy road (6)