CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Hair colour (6) 7 Closely
acquainted (8) 8 Drop (4) 10 Baby’s soft
shoe (6) 11 Certainly not
(2,4)
14 Mesh (3) 16 Powerful businessman (5)
17 Overdue (4) 19 Bathroom
fitting (5) 21 Lure (5) 22 Finger or toe (5) 23 Chair (4) 26 Man’s name (5) 28 Farm animal (3) 29 Bursts out (6) 30 Spanish dance
(6)
31 Operator (4) 32 Sweet-smelling
(8)
33 Sport (6)
DOWN
1 Burrowing
rodent (6) 2 Pointed beard
(6)
3 Irritate (4) 4 Disregard
orders (7)
5 Bet (5)
6 Desire earnestly
(5)
8 Bowl for baptismal water (4) 9 Permit (3) 12 Corpulent (3) 13 Major artery (5) 15 Lawful (5) 18 Detest
vehemently (5) 19 Beseech (3) 20 Speck (3) 21 Spoil the shape
of (7)
22 Slope
downwards (3) 23 Serious (6) 24 Water jug (4) 25 Soldiers (6) 26 Muscular (5) 27 Rustic (5) 28 Lettuce (3) 30 The thick end (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 The charm of a masterly Caledonian (6) 7 It’s usual to find a bit in a mixed haul (8) 8 All-round evidence of saintliness (4) 10 Supplication of one on his knees (6) 11 Something to read and take in (6)
14 Good and
angry! (3) 16 Break the rules relating to baits (5) 17 Seen from a wide angle, he’s a good man (4) 19 They’d be crooked ones in Slade prison (5) 21 Blackish seaside structure? (5) 22 Cause of flying starts in the heats? (5) 23 Just in case you need cholesterol reduction (4) 26 Standard
bloomers? (5) 28 Audio fault that comes back again (3) 29 Marines are taken in, alas, by possibly false ones (6) 30 Amuse the titular head with a Verdi composition (6) 31 Something of singular impact (4)
32 A number confessing to playing the fool (8)
33 Flag officer (6)
DOWN
1 In demolishing the dome, very quietly cleaned up (6)
2 See artificial silk as something colourful (6)
3 Among gods, he was in authority (4) 4 Diplomatically bringing a political end to folly? (7) 5 Murphy, maybe?
(5)
6 They stain the character of initially bad lots (5)
8 It’s a funny sort
of fence (2-2) 9 Admitted being a bit of a blether (3) 12 Grand American
name (3) 13 Stately homes can be an asset (5)
15 Can such larceny befit an officer? (5) 18 Enter the lists!
(5)
19 Mr Lynam makes many points (3) 20 Blend of tea that corroded? (3)
21 She has half a mind to appear in jeans, perhaps (7) 22 The female is heartening for fishermen (3) 23 They simply adore left-overs! (6)
24 Were in jug (4) 25 Painter in red?
(6)
26 Where cowboys can be disorderly in extremes of rashness? (5) 27 Where Sarah gets ahead in hairdressing? (5) 28 Gain a bit of a
following (3) 30 The old magistrate could follow a point (4)