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 1 Red, say (6) 7 Counteract­ing remedy (8) 8 Hollow (4) 10 Loves intensely (6) 11 Kind, sympatheti­c (6) 14 Lyric poem (3) 16 Landed estate (5) 17 Bushy hairstyle (4) 19 Golf term (5) 21 Claw (5) 22 Stinking (5) 23 Satisfy (4) 26 Baffling question (5) 28 Football supporter (3) 29 Stick (6) 30 Sulky (6) 31 Press (4) 32 Steals, informally (8) 33 Pantihose (6)

DOWN 1 Country (6) 2 Exaggerate (6) 3 Rodents (4) 4 Road surfacing material (7) 5 Holy book (5) 6 Not ever (5) 8 Entrance (4) 9 Born (3) 12 Month (3) 13 Group of nine (5) 15 Severe abdominal pain (5) 18 Deluge (5) 19 Flying mammal (3) 20 Deity (3) 21 Frighten greatly (7) 22 Charge (3) 23 Garment (6)

24 Soon (4) 25 Happenings (6) 26 Garden plant (5) 27 Cut wool from (5) 28 In favour of (3) 30 Thin fog (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Is going back East, perhaps, for a rest (6) 7 Became united in service (6,2) 8 Dad’s double (4) 10 A wordy beginning (6) 11 Did he make his name by getting in a rut? (6) 14 Unusually fat at the rear (3) 16 In a way, roses can hurt! (5) 17 She appears in a novel saga (4) 19 Given a second occupation (5) 21 Made a short cut across the lawn (5) 22 Took up arms with the boys (5) 23 Annual decrease (4) 26 Stain removal from fabric (5) 28 Wherein wine bottles can get dusty? (3) 29 Get hold of some chicks (6) 30 Not the only one in the soup! (6) 31 An altogether singular basketful? (4) 32 At the seafront centre, admitting looking dissatisfi­ed (8) 33 Discovered how to make licentious love in a couple of letters! (6)

DOWN 1 Exemplary politician in a Northern town (6) 2 Where insular Scots can move fast at half fare? (6) 3 Poetically, he indicated a yes with a kiss (4) 4 Introduced a safety device amid chaotic din (7) 5 Summer snake? (5) 6 Notices in places (5) 8 Wild apes can be identical twins! (4) 9 A stone mine? (3) 12 Take a shot at a trophy (3) 13 Be repulsive as you stagger round the piano (5) 15 Hebrew, to the Spanish, is a treasure (5) 18 Nearest thing to a boozer (5) 19 Stick usable as a perch, once (3) 20 Guided, as by a little red light maybe (3) 21 Cutting up words, perhaps? (7) 22 In a state of lassitude, take a rest (3) 23 Cave man who got a duplicated letter from Fine Gael (6) 24 Busy workers’ degree of instant success (4) 25 Given fifty quid in dole, perhaps, took it easy (6) 26 Abrade the cuffs? (5) 27 Teacher organised a tour to central Austria (5) 28 Be good at getting alms (3) 30 Eleven parts of a relay race? (4)

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