DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS
3 Mishit golf shot (5)
8 Yields (5)
10 Fertile spot (5)
11 By way of (3)
12 Bellows (5)
13 Estimates (7)
15 Requires (5)
18 Illuminated (3)
19 Savour (6)
21 Flowering plant (7)
22 Ventilates (4)
23 Broad smile (4)
24 Lean or bony (7)
26 Takes on (6)
29 Produce eggs (3)
31 Deserve (5)
32 Expels from
a country (7)
34 Wooden shoe (5)
35 Pistachio, say (3)
36 Spicy Indian dish (5)
37 Discourage (5)
38 Foe (5)
DOWN
1 Theatrical entertainment (5)
2 Contagious disease (7)
4 Asian republic (4)
5 Eye membrane (6)
6 Artist’s stand (5)
7 Feathered friends (5)
9 Cease living (3)
12 Goes back (7)
14 Be seated (3)
16 Sea duck (5)
17 Ignominy (5)
19 Small stream (7)
20 Precocious girl (5)
21 Previous, (5)
23 Rifle attachment (7)
24 Achieve (6)
25 Circuit (3)
27 Rot (5)
28 Ski slope (5)
30 Complete, total (5)
32 Terrible fate (4)
33 Groove (3)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
3 Beats records after a false start (5)
8 Source of pointed guidance (5)
10 In an inferior position (5)
11 Mineral wealth means nothing to the Italian (3)
12 Correspondence with a traitor at No. 10 (5)
13 Shown up in camera? (7)
15 Does wrong to open a shop for medicinal treatment (5)
18 Love a duck! (3)
19 Fix a piece of furniture (6)
21 What the Opposition does. (Yes, during recesses) (7)
22 Tow Henry round the bend (4)
23 Such a camera can be nice (4)
24 Rider given a flat half of bitter (in sport) (7)
26 Dark part of a Mexican hat (6)
29 Heartily contented group (3)
31 Official circle in army organisation (5)
32 The hare running wild on moorland, etc. (7)
34 Mad keen to start bombing in attack (5)
35 Deprive of probity? (3)
36 To me, a piece of writing has value (5)
37 Obsession with dress? (5)
38 Informally ironic (5)
DOWN
1 A beast to snoop around on another’s behalf (5)
2 Bogey, perhaps (7)
4 Does it look heavy on a dog? (4)
5 They show us good Scottish ways (6)
6 Nose no drunkard’s put out! (5)
7 A flat rise also (5)
9 Grave letters (3)
12 Assuage in a way that may foolishly rile a woman (7)
14 Lives at the Saracen’s Head with a relative (3)
16 Agitation about one part of a flight (5)
17 School head still very young! (5)
19 Did dangerous things to astonish a fellow (7)
20 Charles and Mike in a terrible hole! (5)
21 Boozer’s game? (5)
23 London’s thin red line (7)
24 Mistakes made by a deserter in time (6)
25 Leaves in paper bags, perhaps (3)
27 Nothing but wild seas, but better than the desert sands (5)
28 A Godunov character in Russian opera (5)
30 It’s no credit when one’s in debt (5)
32 Rustic American in chicken farming (4)
33 It’s on the stove, but not exactly hot? (3)