CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Join up (6) 7 German
shepherd (8) 8 Throw of dice
(4)
10 Worldwide (6) 11 Aquatic reptile
(6)
14 Label (3) 16 Goes up (5) 17 Way off (4) 19 Pompous girl
(5)
21 Ward off (5) 22 Belong, conform
(3,2)
23 Ticket money
(4) 26 Unexpected extra benefit (5)
28 Writing tool (3) 29 Handsome
youth (6)
30 Red, say (6) 31 Norse god (4) 32 Showing no
mercy (8) 33 Took notice
of (6)
DOWN
1 Mystery (6) 2 Weather line (6) 3 Above average
height (4)
4 Not artificial
(7)
5 Tips up (5) 6 Mountain
system (5) 8 Duty list (4) 9 Insulate (3) 12 Raised edge
(3)
13 One with
leprosy (5) 15 Quick (5) 18 Deluge (5) 19 Encountered
(3)
20 Lair (3)
21 Ludicrous (7) 22 Gaiety,
merriment (3) 23 Of cats (6) 24 Soon (4) 25 Deserved (6) 26 Iraqi port (5) 27 Direction (5) 28 Seedcase (3) 30 Bludgeon (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 One following you all the way to the Bank? (6)
7 A believer in togetherness (8) 8 Barsetshire
cliques? (4) 10 Whence to be in no hurry to return to the UK? (6) 11 Being dosed before finishing breakfast is most strange! (6)
14 The one concerned in Cleopatra’s passing? (3) 16 Passage to a place like Capri? (5) 17 Mead upsets
her (4) 19 Four-legged source of a bleat? (5) 21 Like the point at which to look sharp? (5)
22 It’s badly
laundered (5) 23 Short flights from Kentish gardens? (4) 26 Start drinking
surplus port (5) 28 Nourished at first by the FBI (3)
29 Man’s team?
(6)
30 Norman’s
sagacity? (6) 31 Social crawlers
(4)
32 Depictions of wild gales at the mountain pass? (8) 33 Anyone should be able to grasp this (6)
DOWN
1 Immersed in something tasteful? (6)
2 A film of
lubricant (6) 3 Right about us being in a rotten state (4)
4 A container
historic in
building (7) 5 Figures in a
game (5) 6 Speak for the
nation (5) 8 Crossed the water at a crawl? (4) 9 Something extremely gratuitous? (3) 12 Dry up, on stage, when there’s not enough audience? (3) 13 No good market for bad plums! (5)
15 Takes steps to fiddle a case on the quiet (5)
18 Just the chap to be in a girl’s embrace? (5) 19 Not up to
weight (3) 20 From such a window, is there a sea view? (3) 21 Gaffer favouring a change of name? (7) 22 Joined in something nice (3)
23 Charlton, perhaps, seems not far from Isleworth (6) 24 The chances backers take (4)
25 A more than generous taste (6)
26 The equable
way to go (5) 27 Evil landlord’s
house? (5) 28 A fishy propeller
(3)
30 For which the water was hot (4)