EASY CROSSWORD

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Evoke (6)

7 In spite of

everything (5,3) 8 Medal (4) 10 Counting frame (6) 11 Photographic

device (6) 14 Weapon (3) 16 Street urchin (5) 17 Large quantity (4) 19 Automaton (5) 21 Warning device (5) 22 Wanderer (5) 23 Songbird (4) 26 Jeans fabric (5) 28 Bleat (3)

29 Line on a

weather map (6) 30 Women (6) 31 Unlock (4) 32 Alcoholic

appetiser (8) 33 Paper

handkerchief (6) DOWN

1 Preserve after

death (6)

2 Saffron (6)

3 Labels (4) 4 Ten-sided figure (7) 5 Seraglio (5)

6 Not dirty (5) 8 Jokes (4) 9 Religious sister (3) 12 Floor covering (3) 13 Wash out (5) 15 Islamic book (5) 18 Assistants (5) 19 Raised edge (3) 20 Place to sleep (3) 21 African republic (7) 22 Pen part (3) 23 Angler’s boots (6) 24 Wet weather (4) 25 Snuggle (6)

26 Iraqi currency (5) 27 Original (5) 28 Bread roll (3) 30 Attic (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 That well-known

Roman fugitive (6) 7 A role for father, but it’s hardly full employment (4,4) 8 Two officers somewhere in Italy (4)

10 Reprimand for a

travelling animal (6) 11 Stop for half a year

and do no work (6) 14 Fish in the Elbe (3) 16 Light-headed person’s

name for a game (5) 17 Yankee law-breaker’s

vessel? (4)

19 My coming round to make the tea is friendly (5)

21 Harbour master? (5) 22 No elf can become a

criminal (5)

23 Cuts across the lawn

(4)

26 Unimportant comeback in the part of Geronimo (5)

28 Paternal figure given a

bit of publicity (3)

29 A fabulous flier in

Africa, Russia, etc (6) 30 One giving directions

to Brownies? (6) 31 Contributes to dad’s

conversion? (4) 32 Heady decorations for

the military (8) 33 Yearning for a letter from the land of the Magyars (6) DOWN

1 Clever as a solo

player? (6)

2 What a screw will do

as it turns (6)

3 See a mark on a

billiard ball (4) 4 Unreasonably startle a

young actress (7) 5 Incompletely strive to

fix things! (5)

6 Not all topics on the radio involve violent disagreement! (3-2) 8 The gang are of service

when on air (4)

9 Boy given a piece of

lemon at half time (3) 12 Jack takes him round

to the club (3)

13 Wheat stalks as a treatment for warts? (5)

15 One of a predatory,

grasping set (5)

18 A snake I see as

something savoury (5) 19 Short measure! (3) 20 This speed, being high,

is not raised (3) 21 Reading’s country

girl (7)

22 In favour of turning up

at mid-afternoon (3) 23 With her, a bowler has

a minor success (6) 24 Chances to make an

unusual point (4) 25 Certainly you can depend on us rising to the top (6)

26 Walk like little beasts

having a bit of fun? (5) 27 French city associated

with Bill Sikes (5)

28 It’s no good being a bit

of a dude (3)

30 Good timber cut badly!

(4)