CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS 3 Scandalise (5) 8 Of a town (5) 10 Aromatic herb
(5)
11 Belonging to
us (3)
12 Usual behaviour
(5)
13 Greek letter (7) 15 Discourage (5) 18 Doze (3) 19 Colour (6) 21 Revokes (7) 22 Entrance (4) 23 Require (4) 24 Museum official
(7)
26 Descend by
rope (6) 29 Vigour (3) 31 Devil (5) 32 Represents in
words (7) 34 Underground
drain (5) 35 Pistachio, say (3) 36 Seraglio (5) 37 Tag (5)
38 Lariat (5)
DOWN
1 Rugby forwards
(5)
2 Seaman (7) 4 Scheme (4) 5 Tolerates (6) 6 Afterwards (5) 7 Flying toys (5) 9 Public transport
(3)
12 Optimistic (7) 14 Circuit (3)
16 Big cat (5) 17 Prepared (5) 19 Meat axe (7) 20 Notions (5) 21 Perch (5)
23 In name only (7) 24 Picture house
(6)
25 Gratuity (3) 27 Trite (5)
28 Artist’s stand
(5) 30 Freshwater
mammal (5) 32 Lairs (4) 33 Young fox (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Golfing suit? (5) 8 They’re unable to fly from New Zealand (5)
10 Evidently he made capital love (5)
11 Sailor giving thanks at the end of the war (3) 12 Stereotyped, outwardly, as a charger (5) 13 Lengthen a
sentence? (7) 15 Original piece
of fiction (5) 18 Long distance from the end of a road (3) 19 Worship one in a dream, possibly (6) 21 Large area left on the map of Canada (7) 22 Vigilant fighting
Yankee (4) 23 Instruments for playing an air on key (4) 24 Maligned for being plastered! (7)
26 Garments sold
in pubs? (6) 29 He may well be suspended (3)
31 Foreign gentleman of Norse origin? (5) 32 Chooses as one
likes (4,3) 34 Another name
for Bruce (5) 35 Well refuted! (3) 36 Figures to go to Los Angeles for a house (5) 37 Preferring meat, one makes awful toast (5) 38 Whack with a rolled up Times (5)
DOWN
1 Manual covers
(5)
2 It makes light of being a beetle (7)
4 Reluctant to give a fortune for a hotel (4) 5 After extremes of bother, Edna upsets her (6) 6 Sin city (5) 7 Lady Guinevere’s indignant response! (5) 9 Cold, maybe, but it starts warm (3) 12 Shouts for a dairy product in a vessel (7)
14 The bill for drinks or some eatables (3) 16 It’s clear, even if you stutter a lot (5) 17 Elders have no right to rejoin the Premiership club (5) 19 Enthusiastic cry of a youngster following a race (7)
20 A nation
religiously on guard, perhaps (5)
21 Organ producing
gas (5) 23 Computerised assembly of wee bits (7) 24 Master switch for the current (6)
25 Animal on
toast? (3)
27 In a screwy style, he gets £59 (5)
28 As purchased with plenty of bread? (5) 30 Such explorers go to the ends of the earth (5) 32 Good little boy, but apt to bite! (4)
33 Behold, following a leader of fashion, there’s a girl (3)