CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS 1 Playground item
(6)
7 Ultimate (8) 8 Bombast (4) 10 To be precise
(4,2)
11 Lying face
upwards (6) 14 Congeal (3) 16 Quick (5) 17 Unmarried
woman (4) 19 Tag (5)
21 Focal point (5) 22 Heathen (5) 23 Encounter (4) 26 Detests (5) 28 Large disorderly
crowd (3) 29 Burning (6) 30 Car safety
device (3,3) 31 Rodents (4) 32 African country
(8)
33 Ruptures (6)
DOWN
1 Method (6) 2 Roofing tiles
(6)
3 Moistens (4) 4 Guarantees
(7)
5 Spring bulb (5) 6 Lose blood (5) 8 Shabby clothing
(4)
9 Nothing (3) 12 Close friend
(3)
13 Female relative
(5)
15 Parrot type (5) 18 Perfect (5) 19 Register, record
(3)
20 Bread roll (3) 21 Trend (7) 22 Dowel (3) 23 Building
material (6)
24 Recedes (4) 25 Pantihose (6) 26 Eye colour (5) 27 Levy (5)
28 Girl’s name (3) 30 Horse breed (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Can it not be eaten in silence? (6) 7 Clumsy in a purely amateurish way? (8)
8 An indication of crass ignorance (4)
10 It’s on the cards, we believe (6) 11 Agree to be
heir to? (6) 14 Figure out a way to get even (3)
16 Over there across the road, there’s harmony (5)
17 The place for plain clothes men? (4) 19 Prepared to pay
cash (5)
21 The beauty of a ringing sound (5)
22 The hospital
border? (5) 23 Good reason to get your skates on? (4)
26 Mended in the manner persuaded (5) 28 Dry in half a
jiffy (3)
29 When young, entered the outskirts of Torquay (6) 30 Like the new drome at central Greenwich (6) 31 No stranger to being sued? (4)
32 Studying how to make stuffing? (8)
33 Gloomy and angry about the doc (6)
DOWN
1 Were there no island to see, there would still be the bay (6)
2 Shown the way by an ex-Brownie? (6) 3 Hasten with beating heart, little one (4) 4 Source of pricy
information for a swimmer in the nude (7) 5 Lacking nourishment, you can still have fun, boy (5)
6 Wat a rebel!
(5)
8 Observer with the right to check? (4) 9 Drink with Joe over the way (3)
12 Show grief, crossly ignoring a terrible loss (3)
13 A bit of a riot at the detention centre can be the devil! (5) 15 Don’t be surprised if she’s Swedish (5) 18 Let everybody
cry! (5)
19 Like diamonds,
suitably? (3) 20 Beverage from
Caledonia (3) 21 Justification for
a story? (7) 22 She may be broody during the night (3) 23 Get back from
uncle’s (6) 24 Cool when
shaking dice (4) 25 To start a fire is beneficial to the French (6) 26 Put up with
punishment (5) 27 Such aid may
be ‘brief’ (5) 28 A hissed message, nothing less? (3)
30 Fatheads full
of drink? (4)