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USE THE GRID WITH THE CRYPTIC OR THE EASY CLUES, BUT BEWARE: THE ANSWERS ARE DIFFERENT.

EASY CLUES ACROSS

9 Tepid (8)

10 Wildebeest (3) 11 Colour (6)

12 Conclude (6) 13 Communication and

contact (7)

14 Remedy (4)

15 Senior doctor (10) 17 Killer (8)

18 Outlandish (7) 19 Difficult (4)

21 Mean (6)

24 Sexist man, commonly

(4,10,3)

27 Insect (6) 29 Competent (4) 30 Monkeys (7) 33 Unmarried Spanish

woman (8)

35 Building worker (10) 36 Sicilian volcano (4) 37 Painkiller (7)

38 Close at hand (6) 40 Very sad (6)

41 Anger (3)

42 Instances (8)

DOWN

1 Concert hall (10) 2 Type of house,

commonly (4) 3 Unmarried man (8) 4 Blend (7) 5 Conspicuous (11) 6 Sport (10)

7 Casual trousers (6) 8 Duress (8)

10 Hard work, commonly

(5)

16 Not deep (7) 20 Blacksmith’s block (5) 22 Pudding ingredient (7) 23 Dessert dish (6,5) 25 Knowledge (10) 26 Soft drink (6,4) 28 Opening (8)

31 U.S. state (8)

32 Trailblazer (7) 34 Citrus fruit (6) 35 Canal boat (5) 39 Mountains (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

9 It’s tea with no frills

for father (8)

10 Save soap (3)

11 Away with a woman in

America (6)

12 Try to grab and there’s

a scrap (6)

13 Say you hope it’s

oven-ready (7) 14 Arrange at the top or bottom of the sheet (4)

15 Meant to give serious

thought to (10)

17 How close one is to

being a miser? (8) 18 A furious addendum about people who steal the work of others (7)

19 Which of you came to

a halt? (4)

21 He painted

“The Convert” (6) 24 Being as expansive as you could possibly be? (5,2,3,7)

27 Going up to pack the case, off we went (6)

29 Set out to capture a

point (4)

30 For a rugger player, the way to capture a bouncing ball (7) 33 He’s mad to become a

really good shot (8) 35 Minds going into exile

(5,5)

36 Bound, when the top comes off, to break open (4) 37 Claws the children

(7)

38 Turn the swine loose? That would be imprudent (6)

40 In view of the fact that you’re granting an interview (6)

41 Said I had gone down

(3)

42 This bird is the bird that got at the ducks (8)

DOWN

1 Clamouring about an

inferior article (10) 2 Covers up, but you

notice (4)

3 Is the shopkeeper who sells it only after your money? (8) 4 The one sent off now

as a replacement (7) 5 Attractive enough to be given as a gift? (11)

6 Point the damaged tamarinds out - a bird (4,6)

7 Rip off a child and that’s

the punishment (6) 8 Just a fabrication of lies in an intricate pattern (4,4)

10 Animal from a river in

a Scottish island (5) 16 Think I have a mine with

silver in it (7)

20 Passes for the people who work in the factory (5)

22 Snake that perturbs

people? (7) 23 Happens when one reaches the route between peaks (5,2,4) 25 The energy to vacate the seat and be on your way? (3,2,3,2) 26 Yielding and taking the

inferior job (10) 28 Does he not break the news gently about the dog? (8)

31 “Sounds like a light

weight,” you say (8) 32 To get the footstool, the fool has gone into debt (7)

34 Distant, I note, with the

worker (6)

35 Can it be spent in idle

loafing? (5)

39 Hearing a knock,

cover up (4)