CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

3 Banquet (5) 8 Criminal

organisation (5) 10 Tree (5)

11 Place (3) 12 Entrances (5) 13 Scolds (7) 15 Valuable thing

(5)

18 Dark (3) 19 African country

(6) 21 Performance

(7)

22 Biblical

character (4) 23 Sediment (4) 24 Funny (7) 26 Girl’s name (6) 29 Feline (3) 31 Giver (5) 32 Universal

remedy (7) 34 Oar (5) 35 Pistachio (3) 36 Gem (5) 37 Shinbone (5) 38 Perceive (5)

DOWN

1 Cloaks (5) 2 City fortress

(7)

4 Cupid (4) 5 Scribble (6) 6 Girl’s name (5) 7 Exhausted (5) 9 Animal hair (3) 12 Minor deity (7) 14 Twitch (3) 16 Escargot (5) 17 Appetising (5) 19 Fundamental

(7) 20 Legitimate (5) 21 Rule (5) 23 Diabolic (7) 24 Shape (6) 25 Container (3) 27 Original (5) 28 Flowers (5) 30 Stinking (5)

32 In addition (4) 33 Young fox (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Beauty who’s soft on everybody! (5) 8 Where the islander lives for song? (5) 10 Paul, it seems, may have nothing to hang around for (5)

11 Sorry to be a bit

sadistic (3) 12 Imagine getting the paper for just one old penny! (5) 13 Fights to get one’s feet wet? (5,2)

15 He quietly chops up a tree! (5) 18 Mickey, we’re told, is a bit fishy (3)

19 As formerly worn by a peer wandering around the kingdom? (6) 21 It can make one glad to be in Ireland (7) 22 Finished making

deliveries (4) 23 Dressed like a chap with a cool head (4) 24 Apt to survive a drunken duel outside a bar, maybe (7) 26 Palestinian leader; could make an artist wealthy (6) 29 Some undies

can fade! (3) 31 Provide only a garbled version (3,2)

32 Denied any necessity to possess a gun (7)

34 Soundly sited where mentioned (5) 35 Tease in outrageous fashion (3) 36 Jason could make a name (5)

37 A saint seemingly foreign to Ian (5)

38 Chinese property one has in Los Angeles(5)

DOWN

1 Think you can write one? Have a go! (5) 2 Approached and forced to be supportive (4,3) 4 Get paid some peanuts for a service (4) 5 Good place for “1 Across” to arrange to meet a novice (6)

6 A poet had the honour to take her out (5)

7 Lad back at the end of the week in Dr Who (5)

9 A stable one?

(3)

12 Eat away! (4,3) 14 Wicked bit of

singing (3)

16 A fine net (5) 17 War ultimately finishes in tears (5)

19 Displayed by father with terrible dread (7) 20 Firmly attached with molten alloy (5)

21 Bad month to

start a year! (5) 23 Many are in good time, obviously (7) 24 Like foreigners dashing endlessly around! (6) 25 A little disagreement that’s important (3)

27 Could it cut the bill off a bird? (5)

28 Like a point of interest to a photographer? (5)

30 A lawyer’s leg

man? (5)

32 It has a fresh

bearing (4) 33 Flap in a stable

door (3)