DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS 3 Summarise (5)
8 Get on (5)
10 Strict vegetarian (5)
11 Be indebted to (3)
12 Essay (5)
13 Cowboy hat (7)
15 Recess (5)
18 Summit (3)
19 Morose (6)
21 Real (7)
22 Mimicked (4)
23 Ring of light (4)
24 Whaler’s spear (7)
26 Radiator (6)
29 In favour of (3)
31 Additional (5)
32 Knitting rods (7)
34 Mistake (5)
35 Throw (3)
36 US state (5)
37 Bode (5)
38 Discourage (5)
DOWN
1 Kiosk (5)
2 Worried (7)
4 Style and vigour (4)
5 Wide street (6)
6 Danger (5)
7 Hidden store (5)
9 Wonderment (3)
12 Liked by many (7)
14 Child (3)
16 Not dirty (5)
17 Take pleasure in (5)
19 Photographer (7)
20 Have a wash (5)
21 Criticise (3,2)
23 Ruffian (7)
24 Funeral car (6)
25 Mineral (3)
27 Evict (5)
28 Walk (5)
30 Refute (5)
32 Organ of smell (4)
33 Record (3)
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
3 The vessel a drunken sot takes up (5)
8 Made to pay (5)
10 Cook us tea, perhaps (5)
11 As served in the late afternoon? (3)
12 He’s only a quarter of an hour at the pit (5)
13 He goes in, but is often “on strike” (7)
15 A handy game, one figures (5)
18 Apple tree! (3)
19 Industriously making a vehicle somewhat oily (6)
21 Able to be whistled? (7)
22 A wet type with much foolish pride (4)
23 What water may do at the pithead, you understand (4)
24 Louis Armstrong provided stray cats with some new homes (7)
26 Getting a monarch out of chancery is risky (6)
29 Being colourful, he takes half of us in (3)
31 Hearty opera singer? (5)
32 Not quite having a fit eleven is justifiable (7)
34 A dangerous thing to get stroppy with! (5)
35 Do such potatoes resemble tomatoes? (3)
36 Grip a good file (5)
37 To moisten, it has to be water (5)
38 Weird echo on the lake (5)
DOWN
1 Statistically essential? (5)
2 For wild apes, there’s nothing better to eat (3,4)
4 The spare you have in a bag to go swimming (4)
5 On replacing a fuse, a turn to the left is beneficial (6)
6 Capital arrangement of airs for the piano (5)
7 There’s plenty of iron in it (5)
9 Drifting, it’s a danger to swimmers (3)
12 Prepare for taking mum to Kew some day (4,3)
14 One person of many (3)
16 When I let a wild dove out, it’s worth seeing (5)
17 She’s slightly famous for her figure (5)
19 But an actress can cut meat! (7)
20 Benedict Arnold’s command (5)
21 Giant canned potato centre (5)
23 Scorched around a lot when plastered! (7)
24 Treat the new potatoes to a little butter? (6)
25 Ancient tribesman in a brownish uniform (3)
27 To listen to a thickhead takes courage (5)
28 Senor’s strange language (5)
30 Is such a brother or sister still growing? (5)
32 He’s in town tonight (4)
33 Furniture there’s room to sit on (3)