CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Sum (5)

8 Soaked with

liquid (5)

10 Bread maker (5) 11 Flipper (3) 12 Pale mauve

colour (5) 13 Wool fat (7) 15 Stop (5) 18 Chest bone (3) 19 Shoves (6) 21 Revokes (7) 22 Cupid (4) 23 Heroic narrative

(4)

24 Tarnished (7) 26 Attack violently

(6)

29 Put on (3) 31 Javelin (5) 32 Legal

punishment (7) 34 Aircraft detection system (5)

35 In addition (3) 36 Deluge (5) 37 Engine (5) 38 Approaches (5)

DOWN

1 As yet (2,3) 2 Disregards (7) 4 Norse god (4) 5 Counting frame

(6)

6 Shoe fasteners

(5)

7 Taut or rigid (5) 9 Spirit (3) 12 Ungrudging (7) 14 Impudent talk

(3)

16 In front (5) 17 Prose

composition (5) 19 Loot (7) 20 American state

(5)

21 Provoke, excite

(5) 23 Statesman (7)

24 Declamation (6) 25 Unit of weight

(3)

27 Taper (5) 28 Boy’s name (5) 30 Bend forward (5) 32 Couple (4) 33 Auction item (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Stuff plenty into the outer parts of a couch (5) 8 One who gives, let’s assume, to some of the poor (5) 10 Some are negotiable with prams (5)

11 At school, the kids wouldn’t miss him (3) 12 For a start, half of us are in arrears (5) 13 Lurk shiftily in the Ministry, making routine progress (4,3) 15 A measuring device, but the Americans can get it by the kilo (5) 18 “Bravo” to mother -- she’s a queen! (3) 19 Elflike creature elusively taking trips East (6) 21 Possibly sad about a bad game, but there are compensations (7)

22 Deserve to be in the clear, naturally (4) 23 What an agitator may do in prison? (4) 24 Stops with a growl, upsetting Tess (7) 26 Difficult in a way said to be negative? (6) 29 He gives us a

beam (3) 31 Endlessly sad fellow of consuming interest (5) 32 It’s in mothballs

(7)

34 Be all upset at a mere tag (5)

35 Pull or twist a

gut (3)

36 To fix things, you need a prison officer (5)

37 One reason for

being tipsy (5) 38 So Ken prepares something to eat (5) DOWN

1 Ms Lee, the tea

lady (5)

2 By whose industry maybe Mark was won round (7)

4 Right of the

keeper (4) 5 Best suit (6) 6 No friend of

the earth! (5) 7 Annoyed a union leader by an unusual step (5)

9 To feign illness isn’t merely nothing (3) 12 French mistress in the history class (2,5) 14 Beast of a

computer? (3) 16 Stint mixing

colours! (5) 17 Prepare to fight

back a lot (5) 19 Reveals in a way that’s different (7) 20 Fatheads making sudden movements (5) 21 Enthuse over the new door at the end of the hall (5)

23 Type of pencil whose tip is used in treating a cyst (7) 24 Timeliness of

execution? (2,4) 25 Hardly Osama’s favourite uncle! (3)

27 City girl (5) 28 Romantic

relations! (5) 30 Pettish way to

lie? (5)

32 Allow some price deduction (4)

33 Historic hothead at the United Nations? (3)