EASY CROSSWORD

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Emphasise (6)

7 Innocuous (8)

8 Rant (4)

10 Served (6)

11 Shopping street (6)

14 Allow (3)

16 Melodies (5)

17 Sleigh (4)

19 Man’s name (5)

21 Claw (5)

22 Warehouse (5)

23 Centre (4)

26 Material (5)

28 Body of water (3)

29 Pass by (6)

30 Girdle (6)

31 Item (4)

32 Jumper (8)

33 Dozen (6)

DOWN

1 Angry looks (6)

2 Delighted (6)

3 Hut (4)

4 Make tidy (7) 5 Started (5)

6 Charred remains (5)

8 Annoy (4)

9 Animal doctor (3)

12 Dog (3)

13 Postpone (5)

15 Punctuation mark (5)

18 Neighbouring (5)

19 Knock (3)

20 Obtained (3)

21 Anxiety (7)

22 Immerse (3)

23 Shade of red (6)

24 Kiln (4)

25 Whole (6)

26 Oozes (5)

27 List (5)

28 Boy (3)

30 Terse (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Where everybody was terribly sad about a murder (6)

7 Once mail sorting place, usually underground (4,4)

8 City with some vagrancy (4)

10 Hold tightly to nothing less than one’s own idea (6)

11 They can increase people’s toxic content (6)

14 It’s less than the total you add up (3)

16 A cheery rhyme, yet weird (5)

17 Garden once at No.

10 (4)

19 Remains in support of a good figure (5)

21 Running through Paris sounds sane enough (5)

22 Gave one’s playmates a hand (5)

23 A little light is good, though not strong (4)

26 An often moving musician (5)

28 Person in favour of remuneration (3)

29 If you have a hand in it, it won’t be for long (6)

30 If expecting a tip, will he be patient? (6)

31 Among the cheapest menagerie exhibits? (4)

32 They’re left to the survivors (8)

33 One’s promise to uncle? (6)

DOWN

1 Possibly piped to the end of the line from somewhere in France (6)

2 Of many soldiers, only one in a foreign place (6)

3 Read something diagnostic? (4)

4 Optical overture (4,3)

5 A better judge? (5)

6 Let a learner have a little leisure! (5)

8 A wanted contribution to the pot (4)

9 Almost torn up as simply rubbish (3)

12 The sidesman’s boy? (3)

13 Former Beatle’s call for love (5)

15 All the same, it’s not sparkling (5)

18 Is he not all wicked? (5)

19 In use, always tastes salty (3)

20 Soldier, perhaps, or robber of food from a peasant (3)

21 How Vic Rees rejoined the navy, say (7)

22 It flows in the tide, especially (3)

23 Be sorry for an endlessly grim woman (6)

24 They’re drawn in substantial amounts (4)

25 Sing of a crazy brawl over a cigarette end (6)

26 Song of the waving palms (5)

27 In extremes of penury, she has a simple breakfast (5)

28 The mushy food dad’s

soft on? (3) 30 White-headed snake that stings rather than bites (4)