Bangkok Post

CROSSWORD

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Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Yearly records

(6)

7 Always (8) 8 Challenge (4) 10 Newspaper

boss (6) 11 Jungle

expedition (6) 14 Acquire (3) 16 Italian city (5) 17 Fish type (4) 19 Meat in rashers

(5)

21 Sucrose (5) 22 Inert gas (5) 23 Pace (4) 26 Illegal burning

(5)

28 A low (3) 29 Cure (6) 30 Restaurant

worker (6) 31 This place (4) 32 Jewellery item

(8)

33 Deep ditch (6)

DOWN

1 Part of speech

(6)

2 Subsides (6) 3 Prophet (4) 4 Originator (7) 5 Of the Sun (5) 6 Tree sap (5) 8 Lodgings (4) 9 Decompose

(3) 12 Merriment (3) 13 Wash out (5) 15 Truck (5) 18 Cognizant (5) 19 Unopened

flower (3) 20 Container (3) 21 Light shoes

(7)

22 Fish eggs (3) 23 Private evening

party (6) 24 Carry (4)

25 Die (6)

26 Stadium (5) 27 Slap (5) 28 Girl’s name (3) 30 Sharpen (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Of such music, a piece is of questionab­le length (6)

7 Can one order such a bed? (5,3)

8 Pack up for post, possibly (4)

10 Go back and make another concession? (6)

11 A spectator’s

view? (6)

14 Not to mention the outlandish bit (3)

16 Had ways of going to hell! (5)

17 It’s tough, being caught outright! (4) 19 Intertwine­d with material benefit (5) 21 Attendants possibly back to back (5) 22 To run away is quite legal, in short (5) 23 Hardly a finishing school! (4)

26 To cut or reduce

severely (5) 28 The master has sweetheart -- name her! (3)

29 That horsy man leaping about on board! (6) 30 Sausages for

the girlfriend (6) 31 A stone to duck,

chum (4)

32 It won’t hold much soap, note, if shaken (8)

33 Slippery, perhaps, and grey as can be (6)

DOWN

1 Shaken by a crash outside the Turk’s Head, you need a stiffener (6) 2 Mean to indent

anew (6)

3 Give the dentist an astonished look? (4)

4 Looks embarrasse­d when left in the shrubbery (7)

5 Spotted one being rushed outside (5)

6 Are they best sorted out with Danish capital? (5)

8 A blemish to the borough, up North? (4) 9 To do wrong to a good end, seems strange (3)

12 All for a

mythical god (3) 13 Stop having a bearing in the case (5) 15 Reason to keep a record, I see (5) 18 Foreign film?

(5)

19 Is he movingly

funny? (3) 20 His patients

don’t talk (3) 21 Possibly getting a fashion-centre into the papers? (7) 22 The French, at long last, have a cricket side! (3)

23 A better team

than Villa? (6) 24 No phony earl,

it’s true (4) 25 Not quite prim, and a bit fussy? (6)

26 Fish on board?

(5)

27 Between a couple, the tango is very important (5) 28 Chart useful in semaphore (3)

30 Musical number with very little going for it (4)

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