DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS
3 Volley of gunfire (5)
8 Giant (5)
10 Messenger (5)
11 So or thus (3)
12 Perceives sound (5)
13 Bird (7)
15 Wild animal (5)
18 Insulate (3)
19 Affair (6)
21 Gel (7)
22 Ruffian (4)
23 Speck of soot (4)
24 Nabs (7)
26 Combined (6)
29 Enemy (3)
31 Male voice (5)
32 Confound (7)
34 African river (5)
35 Pelvis (3)
36 The press, TV, etc. (5)
37 Lukewarm (5)
38 Coagulates (5)
DOWN
1 Rope fibre (5)
2 Arrears of work (7)
4 Afresh (4)
5 Of words (6)
6 Beginning (5)
7 Steed (5)
9 Facial twitch (3)
12 Gaunt (7)
14 Karate expert (3)
16 Minute particles (5)
17 Veracity (5)
19 Head towards (4,3)
20 Swagger (5)
21 Herb (5)
23 Boy’s name (7)
24 Antenna (6)
25 Male child (3)
27 At no time (5)
28 Pick-me-up (5)
30 Student (5)
32 Undiluted (4)
33 Mouth part (3)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
3 Container capable of expansion (5)
8 They tell people when to be dutiful (5)
10 Strong development in the west
and south (5)
11 The master, a college head,
is a Scot (3)
12 She’s short of Bordeaux rouge (5)
13 As held up by a shady individual? (7)
15 Don’t rush to apportion blame! (5)
18 The burden on part of the front axle (3)
19 Goes carefully with wild snakes (6)
21 Went for! (7)
22 Goodness, an aristocrat! (4)
23 The lemonade lady (4)
24 Great writer, but he makes
me snore (7)
26 Can bat, maybe, and get his blue (6)
29 Listener with a noted warm heart (3)
31 Dogs with connections around central
Barking! (5)
32 This pencil’s not for writing (7)
34 Thirty-nine of them could be novel (5)
35 Sing a Schumann piece (3)
36 Brief contribution to better service (5)
37 Dance associated with a low bar (5)
38 Sandy area around the pole (5)
DOWN
1 Has she almost won a husband? (5)
2 What the empties have been (7)
4 Initially a hospital for the sick (at
Harrow?) (4)
5 Waterside London thoroughfare (6)
6 Subject of an article by me (5)
7 Shut up in a nice way, initially (5)
9 Jack’s a bit of a star (3)
12 An old-fashioned fop (7)
14 Not being fully up to the task,
had a rest (3)
16 Was he cured? (5)
17 The writing of letters, for instance (5)
19 Once more, in religious groups, they’re
hush-hush (7)
20 Chosen, though less than
delectable (5)
21 Nominally honest (5)
23 Roam around having a broken hip, and
you need a pain-killer! (7)
24 Initially English flower (an annual) (6)
25 Think aloud? (3)
27 Dried an excellent colour (5)
28 Name a countess always has (5)
30 Quartet used in climbs (5)
32 Go round to the doctor? (4)
33 Childish place to put food and drink (3)
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