CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
9 Horse show (8) 10 Cricket extra (3) 11 Jamaican music (6) 12 Potbelly (6) 13 Pleased, informally
(7)
14 Eager (4)
15 Betrothal (10) 17 Bedtime drink (8) 18 Disperse (7)
19 Flying insect (4) 21 Fugitive (6)
24 One-day cricket fixture
(7-5,5)
27 Drunk, informally (6) 29 Foot part (4) 30 Extremely virtuous
(7)
33 Obstinate (8) 35 Arranging (10)
36 Cab (4) 37 Mischievous creature
(7)
38 Debris (6)
40 Irregular (6)
41 Father (3)
42 Photo (8)
DOWN
1 Despotic (10) 2 Related (4)
3 Type of wool (8) 4 Schoolbag (7) 5 Cursory (11) 6 Wedding participant
(10)
7 Shocked (6)
8 Wide view (8) 10 Obtuse (5)
16 Try (7)
20 Book (5)
22 Lockjaw (7) 23 Miscellaneous items
(4,3,4)
25 Completely (10) 26 Wrestling hold (4-6) 28 Seducer (8) 31 Unusual (8)
32 Suffer anguish (7) 34 Underpants (6) 35 Lubricated (5) 39 Occupied (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 For “odd”, the usual clue, I interposed, is “strange” (8) 10 Elevenses, though it’s
not quite eleven (3) 11 Finding it strange to be
out of a job (6) 12 Seasoned and put
away (6)
13 Garment the unmarried start a trousseau with (7) 14 Make for the top
(4)
15 Having taken a look at,
left (7,3)
17 Did the tennis player fall while making it? (4,4)
18 Maddens with ridiculous
requirements (7) 19 Could have run into debt, you say, in Ireland (4)
21 When bitten, ran
(6)
24 Goes on to the next page of “Reforms” (5,4,1,3,4)
27 An offshoot of the British/American farm (6)
29 Grass that upsets
herbivores (4) 30 Wrongly, is not taken to account for one’s behaviour (7)
33 The animal will run
after, you bet (8)
35 It’s a sickness you get
from fish, miss (10) 36 Duck, darling! (4) 37 Offer to repair it and you have to give it up (7)
38 Give an exclamation
and run after him (6) 40 Have a very high regard
for Paul (6)
41 Bean that may well feature in a vegetarian’s diet (3) 42 Am sure to beat at, having entered: they’re no experts (8)
DOWN
1 Unconcern about the
separation (10)
2 Arrest in the art
gallery (4)
3 Does it moan when you
pull it up? (8) 4 Continue trying to get those unpacked clothes wearable? (5,2)
5 Having been referred to by as “plump,” went to see (6,5) 6 Nobody opposed to at the moment, but it’s only temporary
(4,3,3)
7 On the understanding he’s to get the plants (6)
8 Not to mention going out late and unaccompanied (3,5) 10 It’s my belief it will be
retracted, too (5) 16 After tea laugh at one’s
discomfiture (7) 20 About how old the façade is, be of one mind (5)
22 “Awful creeps”, one put in,
“is absolutely right” (7)
23 Carrying too much weight and imperious (11) 25 Satisfaction obtained from the imparting of knowledge (6,4)
26 As a result, there are no more notches after that (5,5) 28 Reviews when the play’s no longer showing (4,4)
31 What the fool, the silly chap, has on his head? (5,3)
32 The wreckage floats,
drifting a mile on (7) 34 Two hours behind
one, in time (6) 35 Determined, he got through to the paper (5)
39 Whirl wind (4)