CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 3 Exchanges (5) 8 Smooth cotton

thread (5) 10 Assistants (5) 11 So or thus (3) 12 Brings up (5) 13 Small crown

(7)

15 Quick (5) 18 Pelvis (3) 19 Courteous (6) 21 Weasel-like

mammal (7) 22 Nobleman (4) 23 Hollow (4) 24 Togs (7) 26 Universe (6) 29 Signal

agreement (3) 31 Prose

composition (5) 32 Goes back (7) 34 Boy’s name (5) 35 Toothed wheel

(3)

36 Vital organ (5) 37 Insurgent (5) 38 Screams (5)

DOWN

1 Buffalo (5) 2 Booze (7) 4 Sharpen (4) 5 Macaw, say (6) 6 Rope-making

fibre (5) 7 Deserve (5) 9 Knight’s title

(3)

12 Revokes (7) 14 Nothing (3) 16 Heaps (5) 17 Greek letter (5) 19 Ally, companion

(7)

20 Freedom from

war (5)

21 Iron (5) 23 Infers (7) 24 Prairie wolf (6) 25 Spicy (3) 27 Willow (5)

28 Wed (5) 30 Rage (5) 32 Genuine (4) 33 Steal from (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Marks knocked off for inferiority? (5) 8 It’s no credit to one, being in debt (5) 10 Gather round the bright little man holding the money that’s left (5) 11 Go for the return (3) 12 Like the punishment for a penman? (5) 13 Joseph’s an elderly person, easily exploited (3,4) 15 It’s a devil, we assume, holding them (5) 18 Your unworthy end (3) 19 Supernatural sort of seed? (6) 21 Notes about the points awarded (7) 22 Declare less than average (4) 23 A decoration, of course, has a certain resonance (4) 24 Bet by a bird? (7) 26 A tripe product, Irish style, is edible (6) 29 Heavy extract of plutonium (3) 31 Damaged one’s grip on things out East (5) 32 Given change? (7) 34 Nothing to read about, possibly, and admire (5) 35 Take badly (3) 36 She’s soft on a nobleman (5) 37 Too big and bad-tempered to be called mousy? (5) 38 It’s reasonable, if only one can see it (5)

DOWN

1 Storehouse for a half-made vessel (5) 2 Giver of advice to a fine end? (7) 4 Look for an equable return (4) 5 Job exchanges? (6) 6 The business of selling half of us beer (5) 7 Come out in the garden (5) 9 Worker having to live at central Harlesden (3) 12 Like cheques dad ably negotiated for middle-men (7) 14 A measure of resistance (3) 16 Not exactly mayor, but important (5) 17 Is it less than seven eighths the equine? (5) 19 One pin in nine (7) 20 He’s seen in several

photos (5) 21 Fine two boys (5) 23 He’s not particular who he orders about (7) 24 The great Stradivarius swindle? (6) 25 Add up an incomplete total (3) 27 Quarrelsome looking regatta competitor? (5) 28 Charges unreasonable rates (5) 30 Obligations best resolved on December 1st? (5) 32 Weapons from Mars? (4) 33 Pyrotechnical tosh (3)