Evening Standard

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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EASY ACROSS

1 Late meal (6)

7 Stretch (8)

8 Slightly wet (4)

10 Trouser supporters (6)

11 Indicate (6)

14 Wag (3)

16 Doomed person,

informally (5)

17 Earth (4)

19 Anteroom (5)

21 Beam of light (5)

22 Bathroom fitting (5)

23 The two (4)

26 Giant (5)

28 Spirit (3)

29 Proverbs (6)

30 Jaunt (6)

31 Animal skin (4)

32 Haughty (8)

33 Run aground (6)

DOWN

1 Emblem (6)

2 Equable (6)

3 Agents (4)

4 Whole number (7)

5 Hairdresse­r’s shop (5)

6 Undergroun­d drain (5)

8 Daybreak (4)

9 Encountere­d (3)

12 And not (3)

13 Entice (5)

15 Sits for an artist (5)

18 Greenfly (5)

19 Craze (3)

20 Neverthele­ss (3)

21 Ancestry (7)

22 Sack (3)

23 Head male servant (6)

24 Leave out (4)

25 Embraced (6)

26 Spanish snacks (5)

27 Linger (5)

28 Regret (3)

30 Chooses (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Work desultoril­y in ceramics? (6)

7 One burning to start shooting? (4,4)

8 Funny sort of fence! (2-2)

10 Twisted by a twin boy (6)

11 From whom a Spaniard will

accept £1? (6)

14 A very high limit! (3)

16 Slopes specially for prams (5)

17 Not so much of it! (4)

19 In terrible dread, showed courage (5)

21 Was this king half-way

Anglo Saxon? (5)

22 There’s simply too much beyond it (5)

23 Machine used by learners on the

motorway (4)

26 Kid Mr Gore, that’s all! (5)

28 Favouring a loud choral piece (3)

29 When I’m gone, perhaps, you can

make a name (6)

30 It’s a conductor’s place to show dislike

for the piano (6)

31 In historic times, a wandering sage (4)

32 It’s our kindness that makes us

what we are (8)

33 The degree to which one can give a

divorced spouse shelter (6)

DOWN

1 Killer in Shakespear­e (6)

2 The gratitude of a star named Tom (6)

3 Rode noisily one way (4)

4 Certain there’s terrible sin about, takes

precaution­s (7)

5 A more than crotchety note! (5)

6 Being seedy, it’s better to be full of them! (5)

8 It’s heard repeatedly in suspicious

circumstan­ces (4)

9 At the end of the day, he gives a cry (3)

12 Chap left at the end of the road (3)

13 When the wrong pair’s obviously

not right! (5)

15 Send dotty Dora round with half of it! (5)

18 Not seaside place, but it has its salts (5)

19 Barely visible Roman numerals (3)

20 A much less than ingratiati­ng character (3)

21 In London, a very short distance to the

eastern extremity (4,3)

22 If not in prison, he’s in the village (3)

23 Being humble is unexceptio­nal (6)

24 She embraces a pupil (4)

25 Complain when lent out for the morning (6)

26 But not too mean to get drunk? (5)

27 In the army, he can play around

with a medal (5)

28 In difficult weather, go back for a

fresh start (3)

30 Dad’s half year tax? (4)

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