DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

4 Teachers (6)

7 Draw near to (8)

8 Card game (6)

10 Taut or rigid (5)

13 A tot (4)

14 Metal fastening (4)

15 Jetty (4)

16 Aged (3)

17 Wading bird (4)

19 Go by horse (4)

21 A blower (9)

23 Hawaiian dance (4)

24 Latvian (4)

26 Flying mammal (3)

27 Complete extent (4)

29 Dutch cheese (4)

32 Remain (4)

33 Hauteur (5)

34 Badger (6)

35 Percussion

instrument (8)

36 Stick or hold fast (6)

DOWN

1 Trust (5)

2 Rotates (5)

3 Pontiff (4)

4 In that place (5)

5 Group of players (4)

6 Baby’s toy (6)

9 Vegetable (6)

11 Wheat spike (3)

12 Glib talk (5)

13 Exhibit (7)

15 Pastry dish (3)

16 Lyric poem (3)

18 Explosions (6)

20 Bury (5)

21 Sound of

disappointment (3)

22 Farmyard bird (3)

23 Chance or risk (6)

25 Of poor quality (3)

28 Adhesive (5)

30 Mournful song (5)

31 Riotous brawl (5)

32 Rescue (4)

33 Baby carriage (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

4 Oust with a disgusted utterance about terrible sin (6)

7 TV picture, broadly speaking (8)

8 Spring three ways (It’s what a frog does) (6)

10 Clever bit of card play? (5)

13 Little Englander, say? (4)

14 He just needs one set to finish the match (4)

15 Great times (4)

16 Exclusive drinking place? (3)

17 Biblical ingredient of little sausages (4)

19 A fishy end? (4)

21 Tropical island crop (9)

23 Father of twins? (4)

24 Napoleon’s game? (4)

26 It’s rightly kept in Delaware (3)

27 The sailors get their cut (4)

29 Discontinue misdirecting the post (4)

32 Bring up at the back (4)

33 In number three cabin? (5)

34 Novelist wandering in a stupor (6)

35 Perfectionist’s enumeration of notions? (8)

36 Just the place for the work of art (6)

DOWN

1 Notices skin blemishes (5)

2 Out of shape, you can still have fun with it (5)

3 Go on the wagon, traditionally (4)

4 Bachelors and gunners in port (5)

5 Being clever, you’ll get this in one attempt (4)

6 Something afoot of an open nature (6)

9 This character is in a devious plot (6)

11 Angry-looking leftist (3)

12 It’s easy to get a chap out of the way (5)

13 Contestant who gives his opponent marks (7)

15 Left, perhaps, though each is on the right (3)

16 In the cocktail cabinet, it may be for wine (3)

18 They may be wide open (6)

20 Got up repetitively quoting

Gertrude Stein! (5)

21 Gosh, said the crow! (3)

22 Moscow’s milk supplier (3)

23 One never says anything original (6)

25 Automotive test (3)

28 A trio involved in correspondence (5)

30 Draw a gun? (5)

31 One fit to help with identification? (5)

32 Regretted being rumbled, disheartened (4)

33 Asinine utterance from the vicar’s place (4)