CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
3 Eye colour (5) 8 Hector (5) 10 Jacket part (5) 11 Angry (3) 12 Capital of
Morocco (5) 13 Driving force or
impulse (7) 15 One who steals
(5)
18 Boy’s name (3) 19 Stylus (6) 21 Changed (7) 22 Sacred (4) 23 Repast (4) 24 Slide unsteadily
(7)
26 Shrub or small
tree (6) 29 Meadow (3) 31 Challenges (5) 32 Boarding place
for dogs (7) 34 Book of maps
(5)
35 Flatfish (3) 36 Thick (5) 37 Cause to attack
(3,2)
38 Made mistakes
(5)
DOWN
1 Baby’s pacifier
(5)
2 Quite old (7) 4 Unfortunately
(4)
5 Very happy (6) 6 Turning tool (5) 7 Gem (5) 9 Single circuit
(3)
12 German
measles (7) 14 Toddler (3) 16 Loafer (5) 17 Touches (5) 19 Snuggles (7) 20 In front (5) 21 Communion
table (5)
23 Flow windingly
(7)
24 Female sibling
(6)
25 Farmyard bird
(3)
27 Provide food (5) 28 Stop, halt (5) 30 Arm joint (5) 32 Girl’s name (4) 33 Consume (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
3 Cheat at every
turn? (5) 8 Distressed at one’s pay reduction being increased? (3,2)
10 Person directing the team bus? (5)
11 A bird elephants should be wary of! (3)
12 In the end, perhaps, the modus operandi seems fiendish! (5)
13 Where one labours to get an operation? (7)
15 Occasions when I’m stuck in a setback (5) 18 Transatlantic
record? (3) 19 Assent to the destruction of some nice cedars (6) 21 Because flesh
is weak? (7) 22 Devilish quotation from a palimpsest (4) 23 Low noises
(4)
24 It’s for aches
and pains, perhaps, taking in the tax people (7) 26 Novel place for
cricket? (6) 29 Ladder of success in the theatre (3) 31 Special card for one to run round with (5) 32 Argued about the high speed, indeed! (7) 34 Nine is the one
to be on! (5) 35 Colour of pure
damask (3) 36 Feed the fires of the potteries (5)
37 All set for about a day, perhaps (5) 38 As yet developing growth on grape vine (5)
DOWN
1 Smashing hour by northern lake (5)
2 Yields a dollar
to the boy (7) 4 Cry because it’s only a baby piano (4)
5 Is such broth
alcoholic? (6) 6 Does it stimulate you to be a bit nice? (5) 7 Worked for the electricity man (5)
9 It’s high in
distortion (3) 12 Barking
swimmer? (7) 14 Resolute little
chap (3)
16 As consumed by me and half London (5) 17 You may feel it’s
common (5) 19 Hoped to take a boy to Paris, maybe (7) 20 When burglars did the wrong thing (5)
21 It can make a hole in bad pears (5) 23 Train ’em to use
a turret (7) 24 PM, a teetotaler and a general (6)
25 Polish up a Cherubini piece (3) 27 Heartbreak in
space (5) 28 Unstable movie
character? (5) 30 He’s presumably
bearable (5) 32 Being worn, they
won’t work (4) 33 In a white area, it stains brown (3)