YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 9. Hell to pay 10. Overt-O-OK 12. Caws (cause) 13. Dishes 14. Imag-in-e 15. Son of a gun 17. Match-less 18. Trainer

20. C-her-ry 21. Fine 24. Puts away 26. Redeemed 28. (R)Ages 29. R-anc-id 31. Di-sten-d 34. Situation 36. Comes up to 38. Turning 39. Spoons 40. Grip 41. Mani-cur-e 42. Pre-tender.

1. T-hick-set 2. Blow in 3. Springer 4. Hyphen 5. Con-Somme 6. Registered 7. A-TT-ache 8. No-vice 11. Lea-she-d 16. Finish 19. A-muse 20. C(her)ry 22. I-re(mai)ne(d) 23. Te-as-es 25. Wearing out 26. Rod 27. B-ass-ets 30. Ca-niste-r 31. Do-minoes 32. Droppers 33. Pacific 35. Th-re-at 36. Choppy 37. Par-AD-e.

EASY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 8 10 11

12 13 15 18 19

21 22

American state (5) Lid (5)

Wet or showery (5) Rubbish receptacle (3)

Wild (5) Leave for dead (7) Sham (5) Hearing organ (3) Concluding part (6) Yearbook (7) Afflicts(4) 23

24 26 29 31 32 34

35 36 37 38

Agreement,treaty (4) Confuses(7) Subsides(6) Lubricate(3) Of the nose (5) Collidewith(3,4) Puzzle-solvingaids (5)

Crib(3) Proportion(5) Seraglio(5) Coil(5)

DOWN

1 2

4 5 6

7 9 12

14 Policeman, informally (5) Boarding place for dogs (7)

Level (4) Foreign language (6) Hairdresser’s shop (5)

Make void (5)

By way of (3) Searches for food (7)

Weir (3) 16

17 19 20 21 23 24 25 27 28 30 32 33 Festive occasions (5)

Chairs (5) Inanely foolish (7) Heathen(5) Assumed name (5) Aquaticbird(7) Roar(6) Transgression(3) Trite(5) Unspoken(5) Complete,total(5) Bringup(4) Andnot(3)