CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
4 Reach (6)
7 The outside (8) 8 Register as unemployed (4,2)
10 Roughly built
hut (5)
13 Never a one (4) 14 Nonsense,
slang (4) 15 Swindles (4) 16 Slope
downwards (3) 17 Minute particle
(4)
19 Press (4) 21 Taboo (9) 23 Romantic flower
(4)
24 Christmas (4) 26 Dowel (3) 27 Roasted animal
flesh (4) 29 Plant (4) 32 Girl’s toy (4) 33 Get a goal (5) 34 Guerdon (6) 35 Gemstones (8) 36 More suitable
(6)
DOWN
1 Minimum (5) 2 Book of maps
(5)
3 Long journey
(4)
4 Illegal burning
(5)
5 Fury (4) 6 Musical
instrument (6) 9 Within (6)
11 Of high temperature (3)
12 Utter confusion
(5)
13 In name only
(7)
15 Round loaf (3) 16 Put on (3)
18 Minor earthquake (6) 20 Ancient artefact
(5)
21 Thick mist (3) 22 Decimal point
(3)
23 Go back on
one’s word (6) 25 Ventilate (3) 28 Senior (5) 30 Norwegian
boy’s name (5) 31 Perceive (5) 32 Foolish (4) 33 Indian dress (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
4 Hatchet man in the computer world? (6)
7 Work worthy of performance with love (8)
8 He may raise a dismissive finger (6)
10 Sect with foreign friends at Crouch End (5)
13 That elegiac
poet (4)
14 Mope around composing something beautiful (4) 15 Useless when
empty (4) 16 Beast in a foreign uniform (3)
17 State outcry at Number Ten (4)
19 Nonsense about India causing confusion (4) 21 You can chew dates quickly, it’s true (9) 23 It’s a question
of time (4) 24 Many a beast
has bulk (4) 26 Be sure to keep your eyes open (3)
27 The boaster’s
game (4) 29 Operates in American ways (4)
32 Is this animal the ultimate stallion? (4) 33 Old Jack’s
vessel (5) 34 Cries out between hushes? (6) 35 Imposed by brute strength in the end (8) 36 Stoppers used
by bakers (6)
DOWN 1 Fragmentary conflict? (5) 2 Girl, middleclass, over nine maybe (5) 3 Time-share
network? (4) 4 She charms men one at a time (5) 5 Duplicate what the reporter wrote (4) 6 Rambling ranter
possibly (6) 9 Diverse dramas
in port (6) 11 Cut across the
field (3) 12 Struck by a most unusual eye-opener (5) 13 Benny was a
fine fellow (7) 15 Roman road skirting Vienna (3)
16 Obtained leave for a short time (3) 18 Plant the fowl
pecked (6) 20 The outcome is sure not right! (5)
21 The woman with some fresh eggs (3)
22 A smoke for
the boy (3) 23 The sheepish wimp contradicts him (6) 25 Dry in next to
no time (3) 28 Eros’s strange
bloomers (5) 30 To persevere can be a punishing thing (5)
31 Like dark deeds
(5)
32 Lady of fortune
(4)
33 Maybe granny sounds negative (4)