EASY CROSSWORD

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Floor covering (6) 7 Journalist (8) 8 Ballpoint pen (4) 10 Rubbed out (6) 11 Give (6)

14 Guided (3) 16 Famous (5) 17 Informed (4) 19 Subtract (5) 21 Subject (5) 22 Dead language (5) 23 Plant (4)

26 Flower part (5) 28 Mineral (3) 29 Triple (6)

30 Hire (6)

31 Require (4) 32 Thought out (8) 33 Colonise (6)

DOWN 1 Building material (6) 2 Graceful (6) 3 Stepped (4)

4 Stupid (7)

5 Small mammal (5) 6 Encouraged (5) 8 Formal party (4) 9 Colour (3) 12 Negative (3) 13 Speed (5)

15 Shade of brown (5) 18 Proprietor (5) 19 Speck (3) 20 Container (3) 21 Furniture item (7) 22 Scientist’s room (3) 23 Silver (6)

24 Leash (4)

25 Come out (6) 26 Wading bird (5) 27 Foot lever (5) 28 Number (3) 30 Results (4) CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Beach resort in W. Africa with no bus terminus (6)

7 How to get set point

in a hurry (4,2,2) 8 Manage to keep a

dog (4)

10 Like the track, possibly, after some derailment? (6) 11 With a growl, I have to

make it! (6)

14 Very experienced in

wool dyeing (3)

16 A little drink with

some pals, that’s

all (5)

17 Nice guys always

contradict them (4) 19 Patient restorative treatment, albeit brief (5)

21 Villain who’d never put

a cigarette out (5) 22 In ballet, they show a

lot of leg (5)

23 Fruitful appointment?

(4)

26 Looking grave, possibly sore about a bad start (5)

28 You’ll get nothing back

from a milliner! (3) 29 Land in the middle of

the road! (6)

30 Make a cash

collection (4,2)

31 To make a chimp

cross is not base! (4) 32 But they can all be at

sea (8)

33 Leave for somewhere

abroad (6)

DOWN

1 Like a measure of crime around the East End? (6)

2 Certain notions disturbing to ladies (6)

3 Employed in house

decorating (4)

4 Old citizen’s possibly transparent shortage of rent (7)

5 Incapable of wild fun with some quoits or skittles (5) 6 Helter-skelters always

start to upset her (5) 8 In a certain case, a learner will go steadily (4)

9 Young fox? (3) 12 Would he really

deprive you? (3) 13 Praise in a letter to a

relative (5)

15 Started to live with Big Bertha, possibly? (5)

18 Nothing possibly said about a Spanish farewell (5) 19 Ungrateful creature?

(3)

20 Like Whistler’s

mother? (3)

21 Provide fish out of a

samovar, say? (7) 22 Time to eat perhaps

(3)

23 Various plungers (6) 24 Name for a former

spouse? (4) 25 Shipping business no longer left to seamen (6)

26 Foolish sort of point in

the field of sport (5) 27 Pleasant sort of road

to the country (5) 28 Game played on the

carpet? (3) 30 Descriptive of castles

by the sea (4)