CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Heathen (5) 8 Relating to

sound (5) 10 Truncheon (5) 11 Removable

cover (3) 12 Rains heavily

(5)

13 Nonsense,

slang (7) 15 Fertile spot (5) 18 Was victorious

(3)

19 Royal residence

(6)

21 Referee’s item

(3,4)

22 Buttress (4) 23 Congeals (4) 24 Cosmetic item

(7)

26 Tolerates (6) 29 Err (3)

31 Tribal badge or

emblem (5) 32 Arm bone (7) 34 Spring bulb (5) 35 Knock (3) 36 Melodies (5) 37 Street urchin (5) 38 Spools (5)

DOWN

1 Grinding tooth

(5)

2 Bereaved

husband (7) 4 Nautical cry (4) 5 Overseas (6) 6 Of the nose (5) 7 Pick-me-up (5) 9 Nothing (3) 12 Drawing

implements (7) 14 Signal

agreement (3) 16 One who puts money away (5)

17 Perceive (5) 19 An exercise

(5-2)

20 Wet slapping

sound (5) 21 Post off (5) 23 Common (7) 24 Confuse (6) 25 That man (3) 27 Sham (5) 28 Discourage (5) 30 Student (5) 32 Tor (4)

33 Male sheep (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

3 This, I see, is the deep, dark problem that confronts you (5)

8 Inexplicable

message? (5) 10 Route change avoiding the central part (5) 11 Was he wasted?

(3)

12 Sort out a point with an impatient utterance (5) 13 He shows dad a clever wheeze (7)

15 To start picturing something to talk about (5) 18 Korean mineral?

(3)

19 Finish the race with an increase in colour (6) 21 A big one might be credited with a good balance (7) 22 Is it strange

in tone? (4) 23 A girlish figure

(4)

24 Not ripe, perhaps, but you need it in your diet (7) 26 Free to take a girl out for the day (6)

29 A marine

weapon? (3) 31 It’s better to be

thinner (5) 32 Girl’s best friend at the baseball ground? (7) 34 French boy friend in central Bognor (5) 35 Sooner than finish nowhere! (3)

36 Paled at the possibility of having to beg (5)

37 Like a city area with less than four banks (5) 38 Cut severely!

(5)

DOWN

1 A flat, if untidy, can be deadly (5) 2 Drop in and cry out there’s easy money for it (3,4)

4 A hard water

area (4)

5 A stout carrier

(6)

6 One can learn from a trout when it’s swimming (5) 7 Big Ben (5) 9 Chancy thing to do in a tube train (3) 12 Picture a railway in a beautiful setting (7) 14 Strong feeling

of tiredness (3) 16 Spike with a

bent point (5) 17 Playing it, is there little room for love? (5) 19 Sure to be available in a concertina arrangement (7) 20 Put out when fun’s spoilt by a fathead (5)

21 It can spoil

satin (5) 23 They turn down

the lights (7) 24 In the army, a padre can contribute to it (6)

25 A long time, but less than a generation (3) 27 It makes the bullets go round (5)

28 He painted a Dominican head at various ages (5)

30 Go furtively to

steal (5)

32 Not much money for a girl and me (4) 33 The sphere of superior benefits (3)