DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS
1 Stone (6)
7 Practise (8)
8 Open tart (4)
10 Assert (6)
11 Suave (6)
14 Land measure (3)
16 Acclaim (5)
17 Singing voice (4)
19 Giant (5)
21 Fastening pin (5)
22 Evil spirit (5)
23 Rasp (4)
26 Spanish snacks (5)
28 Throw (3)
29 Planet (6)
30 Profession (6)
31 Vertex (4)
32 Unmarried man (8)
33 Tasks (6)
DOWN
1 Straw hat (6)
2 Dance (6)
3 Sea eagle (4)
4 South African
mongoose (7)
5 Step (5)
6 Yields (5)
8 Horizontal (4)
9 Generation (3)
12 Roll (3)
13 Original (5)
15 Piece of turf (5)
18 Of the moon (5)
19 Boy’s name (3)
20 Number (3)
21 Restarts (7)
22 Karate expert (3)
23 Wood (6)
24 Mountain goat (4)
25 Exit (6)
26 Plump (5)
27 Area (5)
28 Circuit (3)
30 Thick paper (4)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Quick to take a break in the office (6)
7 Not the king of plums! (8)
8 Get very heated (4)
10 Little house on top of a dam (6)
11 Very important old city man (6)
14 Simenon made a lot of noise about them (3)
16 It’s Wednesday, so duck a dunderhead in the river! (5)
17 They’re bony and cagy (4)
19 Space traveller, tailed (5)
21 He’s a card! (5)
22 Sign for the input (5)
23 Lubber doing a clean-up job (4)
26 Astonishing start at university (5)
28 Being knotty, it takes a bit of patience (3)
29 Having cracked his nut, is prevented from leaving (4,2)
30 The boss may be a mere boy (6)
31 Chooses a different spot (4)
32 Birds giving a brownish grey fantail a nasty sock! (8)
33 When a trout swims drunkenly around Beachy Head, it’s definitely fishy! (6)
DOWN
1 Person behind the movement of drugs (6)
2 Workers putting minced veal into a vessel (6)
3 Done too much (4)
4 A beginner in athletics? (7)
5 Give credit to some of the needy, for faith (5)
6 Political group, crafty on the quiet? (5)
8 Dylan takes mega sum of money (4)
9 Man of Kent (3)
12 When shot, go to the treatment centre (3)
13 She had a difference with Diana (5)
15 A game faced impassively (5)
18 Goddess chose second nationality (5)
19 What cockneys say when they see gold? (3)
20 Rail line I may join in time (3)
21 It’s a job, after one short month, to compose a trio (7)
22 You may not remember resting therein (3)
23 A relative in hospital (6)
24 Cook up a disparaging term for MPs (4)
25 Deprived of beer, perhaps, by a certain measure (6)
26 Sadie, upset when separated (5)
27 Goes around with runts (5)
28 It’s apt to be turned on (3)
30 Nearly all use a self-starter during a car test (4)