Bangkok Post

CROSSWORD

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

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EASY CLUES ACROSS

3 Perfect (5) 8 Draconian (5) 10 All-night watch (5) 11 Gratuity (3) 12 Synthetic fibre (5) 13 Having restrictio­ns (7) 15 Tree (5) 18 Agent (3) 19 Wish or long for (6) 21 Mosque tower (7) 22 Wet weather (4) 23 Require (4) 24 Turns up (7) 26 Detests (6) 29 Joke, informally (3) 31 Fact (5) 32 Spins (7) 34 Rapidity (5) 35 Summit (3) 36 Spicy Indian dish (5) 37 Belief (5) 38 Gaze fixedly (5)

DOWN

1 Glossy fabric (5) 2 Headache tablet (7) 4 Deceased (4) 5 Shore bird (6) 6 School punishment (5) 7 Iraqi currency (5) 9 Raised edge (3) 12 Mends (7) 14 Number (3) 16 Plunges (5) 17 Prepared (5) 19 Minor deity (7) 20 Baker’s product (5) 21 Physical strength (5) 23 Nullifies (7) 24 Axilla (6) 25 Container for liquids (3) 27 Trite (5) 28 Expels (5) 30 Leprosy victim (5) 32 Bring up (4) 33 Unit of weight (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 Fellows seemingly half sane but of great intelligen­ce (5) 8 Letters to Jack from a Gulf state (5) 10 Nice change at the medical centre for old people (5) 11 One way to address a person of class (3) 12 Music group at number ten, possibly (5) 13 Charming women get it at church in various ways (7) 15 One doesn’t feel right out of them! (5) 18 Hugh, we’re told, is just a “hack” (3) 19 Being in the way, a tree could be removed (6) 21 Garden structure by Olga, cleverly (7) 22 A book can be a good one about modern times (4) 23 Stingy chap embracing his sweetheart (4) 24 Means of printing a penetrativ­e article? (7) 26 Old king possessing £1 and a dog (6) 29 It’s a lot to carry to the end of the garden (3) 31 Put to a fitting test (3,2) 32 Cut terribly crude keys (7) 34 Looked desirous of gold, perhaps, out East (5) 35 Has to do without love, being on his own (3) 36 Frustratin­gly promise central heating with no problem (5) 37 Agrees all but initially to weave cloth (5) 38 Trial outcome? (5)

DOWN

1 He’s apt to get into the salad, etc. (5) 2 Walked in a charmed manner? (7) 4 Archer, one of the immortals (4) 5 Rest period for which one can set seats out (6) 6 He’ll do something dramatic (5) 7 Join one for a close finish (5) 9 Bird after coal, maybe (3) 12 Old prison’s modern entrance (7) 14 That woman from Motherwell (3) 16 A woman with contrary ways about her can be fun (5) 17 To astound the team leader is no ordinary feat (5) 19 Inclined to be biased (7) 20 Booklet concerning a car crashed during a race (5) 21 Friendly injection of money into a new play (5) 23 They shouldn’t take long to read (7) 24 Hot vocalist? (6) 25 Spot cash for fish (3) 27 Decree in gold and possibly red (5) 28 Solo arranged by an egghead for free (5) 30 Is it peripheral in the field of betting? (5) 32 Where to end a united state in the United States (4) 33 Gosh, a French horn! (3)

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