CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
8 Zealot (7)
9 Diagram (9)
13 Light wood (5) 14 Dutch cheese
(5)
15 Fugitive (7)
16 Welsh capital (7) 17 Soil (5)
18 Month (5)
20 Shiny material (5) 22 Girl’s name (6) 23 Concord (6)
25 Get undressed (7) 27 Large rock (7) 30 Heavenly messengers
(6)
31 Far-off (6)
32 Records (5)
35 Breed of dog (5) 36 Arbour (5)
37 Prove adequate (7) 39 Journeys (7) 41 Wireless (5)
42 Din (5)
43 Dislike (9)
44 Law (7)
DOWN
1 Adapt (6)
2 Holiday (8)
3 Playing card (4,2,5) 4 Seabird (9) 5 Dark-coloured (7) 6 Marvellous (10) 7 Forehead (4) 10 Counting frame (6) 11 Melodic (7) 12 Snake (6)
19 Slices of bacon
(7)
21 Firing device (7) 24 Underwear (5,6) 26 Kitchen utensil
(7,3)
28 Fit to sail (9) 29 Rust (7)
30 Recess (6) 32 Certain (8)
33 Hi-fi system (6) 34 Awful (7)
38 Fools (6)
40 Pull (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
8 Awful to-do. A child outside gets trampled under foot (5,2)
9 Two chaps - one just
like yourself (6,3) 13 Sign for the note in foreign currency (5)
14 Signals with the lights
(5)
15 Meant to change the silver lining to a reddish purple (7) 16 With a heart transplant, be about to show life (7)
17 Are breaking it in
for him (5)
18 Time to turn the key
I inserted in it (5) 20 Search clean
everywhere? (5)
22 Give a bow and get set to run through (6)
23 Mean I will get,
in the post (6)
25 Go back again and
sign on (7)
27 Having consumed the food, the animals, in turn, seem dizzy (7)
30 You’ve misspelled
“blue,” squire! (6)
31 A wrench, just when the pair’s got a break point (6)
32 Said to be careful,
it’s booby-trapped (5) 35 Don’t save, but pass,
one’s time (5)
36 Is chock-a-block with people playing games, we’re told (5) 37 Get rid of only an
old instrument (7)
39 For me, cooking a crab in it would be gruesome (7)
41 See and set free what
got caught in it (5) 42 They’re intended for dogs - pointers (5)
43 Lacking a cryptic
clue for “tiny” (9) 44 Agree to take a look at and be delighted by (7)
DOWN
1 Blast! Lost the key
to the building! (6) 2 Just as shiny as before, but we don’t mind (2,6)
3 Returns immediately to a rear view of the stand-in (7,4) 4 Feeling a huge
success (9) 5 Breaking the rules, the doctor goes in for a rest (7)
6 Very self-confident, wags frenziedly when given a gingersnap (10)
7 The chief chap,
I introduced (4)
10 Be chopping logs, going round in circles (6)
11 The queasiness is bad: the sea I find rough (7)
12 Sales talk - and he’s ingratiating himself with the dog (6) 19 The cheek, bundling
one onto the ship! (7) 21 Manage to get across
and to meet with (7) 24 How close the would-be thief is to the jeweller’s window? (6-5) 26 Ringing twice from the
fairground (10)
28 The plant, a weed,
spreads in a while (9) 29 Dogs are best trained
when small in it (7) 30 Continue to think, having turned in, about (6)
32 Certainly not a big
reduction (4,4)
33 Try on the denim top
but don’t like it (6) 34 Eke out for a while
(7)
38 From very bright to
b ..... wet! (6)
40 Crack shot (4)