DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS
4 Collision (6)
7 Bald (8)
8 Pantry (6)
10 Muscular
contraction (5)
13 Summon (4)
14 Girl’s name (4)
15 Young sheep (4)
16 Attempt (3)
17 Operator (4)
19 Cupid (4)
21 Musical
instrument (9)
23 Quarry (4)
24 Greek letter (4)
26 Faint (3)
27 Horse’s gait (4)
29 Stylish (4)
32 Avoid (4)
33 Pursuit (5)
34 Bomb hole (6)
35 American state (8)
36 Spoken (6)
DOWN
1 Trunk (5)
2 Giant (5)
3 Close noisily (4)
4 Religion (5)
5 Knitting stitch (4)
6 Comforts (6)
9 Even though (6)
11 Narrow brooch (3)
12 Ketchup (5)
13 Putrefying flesh (7)
15 Star sign (3)
16 Unit of weight (3)
18 Reaping hook (6)
20 Fish (5)
21 Limb (3)
22 Speck (3)
23 Penetrate (6)
25 Belonging to him (3)
28 Rustic (5)
30 Draconian (5)
31 Stop (5)
32 Injure with a knife (4)
33 Applaud (4)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
4 Face a girl and a wise man (6)
7 Hangs around a high-sounding place in China (8)
8 Old-fashioned, but having all the angles (6)
10 Fully sensitive to a vile manoeuvre (5)
13 Austere party for the pure at heart (4)
14 She has a line in licentious art (4)
15 How a liar can make a bit of
money (4)
16 It’s clever to move fast (3)
17 Hero down at the Den? (4)
19 What people eat and drink in the
Far East (4)
21 It may flutter by (9)
23 The region of Albert Square, as
on TV (4)
24 French cross-country runner (4)
26 In an earlier age, a noted artist (3)
27 Flashy old wreck going round the
youth centre (4)
29 Quarrels that come in series? (4)
32 Bit of a thin time, I suggest (4)
33 A letter hard to believe to any extent
whatever (2,3)
34 Possibly credit with being straight (6)
35 Do better than another bootblack? (8)
36 Take the mickey in an elevating
way? (4,2)
DOWN
1 He gets only one oar out for a bit of sculling! (5)
2 One leaning overboard to hold up the boat? (5)
3 Look round at an exceptional leg? (4) 4 In knightly combat, it helped to save face (5)
5 Coming from an embittered source? (4) 6 Making this noise can be a bit of a struggle (6)
9 Knocks back with bent elbow (6)
11 Women’s political preference, in short? (3)
12 Something like a valve you expect to get
at a shop (5)
13 Eat away (4,3)
15 Left out heartlessly a good deal (3)
16 Junior school? (3)
18 Of the sloping type (6)
20 Ready for later revision (5)
21 As worn by Brenda endlessly? (3)
22 What it’s a relief to be – from Friday! (3)
23 Finish being a traveller (6)
25 Fowler’s bird? (3)
28 In a good position, but not to revise a
musical work! (2,3)
30 A nice place, yet deserted? (5)
31 How smooth and shiny keels can be! (5)
32 Heartlessly heckled, take notice (4)
33 Additionally contributes to the general
sound (4)