crossword
USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
8 Cricketer (7) 9 Clogged pore (9) 13 Serious (5)
14 Wear away (5) 15 Month (7)
16 Stupid (7) 17 Additional (5) 18 Melancholy (5) 20 50-50 odds (5) 22 Recently (6) 23 Physician (6) 25 Firearm (7)
27 Gift (7)
30 Star system (6) 31 Calm (6)
32 Lariat (5) 35 Finished (5) 36 Shade of purple (5) 37 Sports match (7) 39 Dawn (7) 41 Frogman (5) 42 Large black bird (5) 43 ‘&’ sign (9) 44 Biblical book (7)
DOWN
1 Wildlife tour (6) 2 Fire-resistant
material (8)
3 Type of painting (11) 4 Customers (9)
5 Pupil (7)
6 Fridges, washing
machines, etc. (5,5) 7 Unskilful painting (4) 10 Set fire to (6) 11 Truthfulness (7) 12 Textbook (6) 19 Excursions (7) 21 Breathed out (7)
24 The services (5,6) 26 Cabby (4,6) 28 Superfluous (9) 29 Merit (7)
30 Oily (6) 32 Nonessential items (8) 33 Large seas (6)
34 Plunge into liquid (7) 38 Reveal (6)
40 Title (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
8 Failure - to get rid of
with water (7)
9 Was very successful in enlarging the thing? (4,2,3)
13 Saying it’s a mix you beat up and put an egg in (5)
14 Try to get the dope
to cook (5)
15 There’s one H in
“Haircut”! (7)
16 Being open, a tin gets
sour (7)
17 Having done really well,
was radiant (5)
18 Don’t just lie there!
Dress! (3-2)
20 Hair that will give you
a thrill to touch? (5) 22 About to get drinks
for us all (6)
23 Go off on the subject
of the duo (6) 25 Managed to get rid of and to carry out a search (7)
27 For a springer, it means
“heel”! (7)
30 Taking students in retirement is a mistake (4-2)
31 Joining the firm at this point, form a union (6)
32 By having the animal
skirt the chasm (5) 35 He sings a note for
you to hear (5)
36 What the car does
when you push it? (5) 37 Lead to believe that
you’ll propose (7) 39 Continued to have a problem in the grass border (7)
41 That’s not a short,
in any way (2,3)
42 Oil the wood (5)
43 An attack on the American female team (9)
44 Bet on and it’s slow (7)
DOWN
1 Is it a non runner in
the race? (6)
2 Artificial ice plant (8) 3 On which, lacking the fare, one walks (6,5)
4 Having fun training the
pinto in the pen (9) 5 On line, he’s involved
in a crooked deal (7) 6 Does it help the greengrocer make a packet? (6,4)
7 I’ll get into it, prepared
to fly (4)
10 Finds oneself moved
by the music? (6) 11 The job is bungled
twice in one day (7) 12 Could be an extreme show of anger or just moderate (6)
19 Shot the old held captive inside: it’s very sad (7) 21 After a trio performs, coming on to make a speech (7)
24 So it prevents you seeing and you fall? (4,2,5) 26 Peas, presumably, would not form part of it (6,4)
28 That twit Thomas is
rash (9)
29 Foreigner who got back again into Spain, somehow (7)
30 Took the seat beside one again, which is ironic (6)
32 Equally pious, almost
(2,4,2)
33 The person left holding the baby - and it won’t be dropped! (6) 34 Prim, quiet and rather
uncivil (7)
38 Is, from the first,
into deviant sex (6) 40 Angered by,
being sensitive (4)