CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
9 Time something lasts
(8)
10 Type of run (3) 11 Symbolic
representation (6) 12 Ignominious failure
(6)
13 Rearrange (7) 14 Spacious (4) 15 Muscular disorder
(10)
17 Astronomical area (8) 18 Want (7)
19 Rubbish (4) 21 Demand (6) 24 Tennessee Williams
play (3,5,9)
27 Writing desk (6) 29 Eager (4)
30 Surgical instrument
(7)
33 Punishes severely (8) 35 Entranced (10) 36 Wholesome (4) 37 Dawn (7)
38 Prime (6)
40 Breakfast cereal (6) 41 Summit (3) 42 Motionless (8)
DOWN
1 Rough treatment (10) 2 Popular game fish (4) 3 Extinct creature (8) 4 Robot (7)
5 Common European
bird (4,7)
6 Enlisting (10)
7 Erode (6)
8 Mild mental disorder
(8)
10 Flower (5)
16 Hawaiian instrument
(7)
20 Ardent lover (5) 22 Hot dry wind (7) 23 Murder (11) 25 Business apparel
(6,4)
26 Not essential (10) 28 Slippery (8) 31 American state (8) 32 Harass (7) 34 Anxious (6) 35 Stint (5) 39 Surly youths (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 Learns one’s no
stay-at-home? (5,3) 10 The foreigner is a bit
of a liability (3)
11 Can possibly take three-quarters of an hour to fix firmly (6) 12 The test has been rigged again, in a way (6)
13 Sound very good, though having got a little disheartened (7) 14 Measure the rain one
has trapped (4)
15 Owing to having gone in above one’s head? (4,2,4)
17 They come out for the
audition (8)
18 It’s no good if you apply a smaller quantity (7)
19 A journey for threepence
(4)
21 See, among the gashes
from the blows (6) 24 Ensured one would have no more negative thoughts? (9,4,4) 27 Gets going on the
small pastries (6)
29 Be alone when Ben has
left the plant (4) 30 Sinatra performing is
skilled at his work (7) 33 Took the trouble to set the two deer free (8)
35 Don’t be rough with the
cards! (4,6)
36 Exploited the old (4) 37 Gives generously,
they reveal? (7)
38 You should avoid them if you’re slimming, my dears (6) 40 Did he keep changing his viewpoint as an artist? (6)
41 He’s crazy for vegetarian
food (3)
42 About the female animals, exaggerates (8)
DOWN
1 The wee “36” is
almost new (6,4)
2 I get dole, losing nothing by not working (4)
3 Satisfies one that coins have not fallen inside (8)
4 He has a stab at
making a label (7) 5 Delighted, amused and a little embarrassed (7,4)
6 Go towards but leave footprints behind you (4,6)
7 Scribble “sun-stroke”
(6)
8 Left, which is a mistake?
(3,5)
10 Stop to get a container
to put the second in (5) 16 Agree the friend must come over for the conference (7)
20 Show the key is in the
wrong door (5)
22 View as a good head,
all round (7)
23 Good and bad days a lift operator knows all about (3,3,5) 25 If all else fails, Zurich from the list of holiday venues? (4,6)
26 One with nothing v ital to communicate? (4,6)
28 Says glibly, as one leaves in a hurry (5,3)
31 List that will make an impression on you (8)
32 No one’s fool,
but upset by love (7) 34 Making sure nobody will see you getting a licking (6)
35 Harped on how one was no mere guest? (5)
39 Stops tips (4)