DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS 1 Short-sightedness (6)

7 Disparage (3-5)

8 Tow (4)

10 Party (6)

11 Vulgar (6)

14 Was seated (3)

16 Broaden (5)

17 Make watertight (4)

19 Cuba’s Mr Castro (5)

21 Light beam (5)

22 Giant (5)

23 Is obliged to (4)

26 Allege (5)

28 Weapon (3)

29 Rupture (6)

30 Courteous (6)

31 Revise (4)

32 Memento (8)

33 Angora (6)

DOWN

1 Fails to hit (6)

2 Not singular (6)

3 Competent (4)

4 Authorise (7)

5 Protect (5)

6 Lustre (5)

8 Italian city (4)

9 Allow (3)

12 Afflict (3)

13 Vends (5)

15 Rope-making fibre (5)

18 Bird (5)

19 Not thin (3)

20 Lair (3)

21 Confined (7)

22 Metallic element (3)

23 Stubborn (6)

24 Single entity (4)

25 Minor earthquake (6)

26 Pursuit (5)

27 Quarrel (5)

28 Deity (3)

30 Hairstyle (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Clever, but a bighead – yes? (6)

7 Can you really be in this when on

the carpet? (3,5)

8 Performance that’s no good as a

farewell? (4)

10 Writer of the cheque for a reward,

possibly returned (6)

11 A back seat (6)

14 Become a bit fidgety (3)

16 Heavyweight out with some of the

boys? (5)

17 Move hastily, thus damage (4)

19 Recipient of income tax, note (5)

21 A girl and a boy had a meal

together (5)

22 Hastily leave a house that’s just a

disorderly tip (3,2)

23 Made haste, but with some lack of

speed! (4)

26 Half of us had been lying, so were

killed (5)

28 A great river, it seems, cannot end

in nothing! (3)

29 Called in an intermediary (6)

30 Wherein Alonso got drunk? (6)

31 To help such people can be a

charity (4)

32 It’s wrong to confuse Mike with

Stan (8)

33 It’s good, say, as a water carrier (6)

DOWN

1 Possibly one-armed villain (6)

2 Scowl down upon a gangster leader (6)

3 God of ancient horticulture? (4)

4 Worked hard to make a stewed

concoction (7)

5 They can help a footballer not to fall down on

the job (5)

6 Inexperienced and envious? (5)

8 It’s an old story (4)

9 Allowed out of jail, etc. (3)

12 If it runs, it’s not particularly fast (3)

13 Mislay a ring inside when slack (5)

15 You may fear to press this button (5)

18 Send away what is no longer to lie around (5)

19 We hear it’s of timely significance (3)

20 Still the old-fashioned style of shirt (3)

21 Where the Irish are cheated with short

measure? (7)

22 After the end of March, I’m the fellow you

want (3)

23 Without a word, listen with attention (6)

24 Persevere at an old composition for the

piano (4)

25 Performer able to read out a couple of

letters (6)

26 Stops holding up the flowers! (5)

27 A bit more income in spring (5)

28 Start angrily, perhaps, to harangue (3)

30 Made musical sounds (or maybe

squealed?) (4)