CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Respiratory disorder (6) 7 Regardless of (2,6) 8 Insect (4) 10 Declare (6) 11 Musical passage (6) 14 Employ (3) 16 Hoodwinks (5) 17 Let it stand (4) 19 Heathen (5) 21 Stiff (5) 22 Cloth made of flax (5) 23 Croon (4) 26 Assistants (5) 28 Sun browning (3) 29 Free (6) 30 Red, say (6) 31 Soon (4) 32 Indiscreet (8) 33 Term of office (6)
DOWN
1 At all times (6) 2 Sincere (6) 3 Poker stake (4) 4 Iraqi capital (7) 5 Watch band (5) 6 Impulses (5) 8 Adhesive (4) 9 Generation (3) 12 Manage (3) 13 Chair on poles (5) 15 Ring-shaped roll (5) 18 Belonging to them (5) 19 Fasten (3) 20 Spirit (3) 21 Ludicrous (7) 22 Permit (3) 23 Lounge (6) 24 Privy to (2,2) 25 Rotate (6) 26 Gemstone (5)
27 Bop (5) 28 Unit of weight (3) 30 Set of actors (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 A drink or two
(6)
7 By certain means, silly Vera shows her years (8)
8 A hitch, perhaps, at speed (4) 10 Down-to-earth points helpful to athletes (6) 11 A useless piece of oratory or a yarn (6) 14 Always without a heavier heart (3)
16 The historic prison in which we rot, imaginably (5) 17 Fish out of a
can (4)
19 Shut up in the way I can’t possibly (3,2) 21 What Ian needs to make him a player (5)
22 Student, a mere youngster to be Italian (5)
23 Speed past
(4)
26 The fatheads make only a semi-assessment (5) 28 That’s life, in France, as people contend (3) 29 Openings in
armoury? (6) 30 Character getting Joe upset during a card game (6) 31 Spout in unwarranted fashion (4) 32 Treaties prepared as religious work? (8)
33 Farm worker at hand in a stern position? (6)
DOWN
1 Puts out the light, or does us in (6)
2 Relied on being deposited somewhere safe (6)
3 How to take a seat for dinner, maybe (4)
4 Like wild
efforts in craft
design (7)
5 A little light in
shining (5) 6 Mark has nothing on, nominally (5) 8 Where to go if you’d like to change? (4) 9 Finished being
poetic (3) 12 Was given leave, starting tomorrow (3) 13 A show to see again, we’re told (5) 15 A growing boy
(5)
18 Girl is hot-headed, presumably a colleen (5) 19 Vessel used in acupuncture (3)
20 Almost link up
with love (3) 21 Old bangers that could cause death (7) 22 Write an
enclosure (3) 23 It means something when you write a name (6) 24 Form of tape useful in the garden (4) 25 The doctor, redundant, gets another job (6)
26 A clever sort of
angle? (5) 27 Located at Ponders End, tied in a knot (5)
28 By way of taking a girl to central Spain (3) 30 Worry about the guitar part? (4)