Evening Standard

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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EASY ACROSS

4 Frustrate (6)

7 Coffee type (8)

8 Keep in order (6)

10 Injures with a knife (5)

13 Thick paper (4)

14 Hawaiian dance (4)

15 Flow out slowly (4)

16 Fizzy drink (3)

17 Find fault (4)

19 Broad smile (4)

21 Newlyweds’ trip (9)

23 Search for prey (4)

24 Bevel (4)

26 Limb (3)

27 Hotness (4)

29 Leave out (4)

32 Fossil fuel (4)

33 Beast (5)

34 Tempests (6)

35 Pachyderm (8)

36 First, original (6)

DOWN

1 Dog lead (5)

2 Dismay, terrify (5)

3 Untidy state (4)

4 Gemstone (5)

5 Not tame (4)

6 Calculate (6)

9 American state (6)

11 Container (3)

12 Meat in rashers (5)

13 One

imitating another (7)

15 Mineral (3)

16 Narrow brooch (3)

18 National song (6)

20 Helicopter blade (5)

21 Embrace (3)

22 Floor covering (3)

23 Blustering bully (6)

25 Seizure (3)

28 Artist’s stand (5)

30 Wall painting (5)

31 Canvas shelters (5)

32 Baby carriage (4)

33 Strikes, informally (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

4 It’s nice and warm, for a change,

in Ealing (6)

7 Such work may seem too much

for a while (8)

8 Join to get the club promoted (4,2)

10 He’s funny, as many will admit (5)

13 Dash off to fix things (4)

14 To me, a little house (4)

15 We’re out to get in for a drink (4)

16 Favourite part of Peterborou­gh (3)

17 The opposite of hen, in a sense (4)

19 It’s useless putting one in a truck i(4)

21 The chap to flatter, perhaps, but it must

be sincere (9)

23 It’s of growing potential (4)

24 Current charge? (4)

26 Female of the cassowary (3)

27 Regarded as a bit of a key man (4)

29 State definitely it’s the little turning on

the right (4)

32 Run away and shelter at the

welfare centre (4)

33 Spring gave heart to the Pharisees (5)

34 Where, abroad, Alma got mixed up

with some Yanks (6)

35 Where the wealthy go on

most Mondays (8)

36 Be a close thing! (6)

DOWN

1 Affect just a little (5)

2 An oven faulty at the bottom end will

do you no good! (5)

3 Knock out with a snooker cue? (4)

4 Be progressiv­ely friendly (3,2)

5 Practised without weakening (4)

6 Some faculty men have; call

it insight (6)

9 A team of two, as the Romans would

have figured? (6)

11 Like the setting sun, if you look west (3)

12 River flowing into a sewer? (5)

13 It’s largely known as Wellington­ia (3,4)

15 In attrition, perhaps, endlessly wary (3)

16 After a poor start, it may yield coal (3)

18 Wildly contradict­ed (6)

20 The Gibraltari­an’s table (5)

21 The way shown between two points (3)

22 Prevented a G-man from starving (3)

23 No hero in the cod war (6)

25 Like the French, he’s free

from deceit (3)

28 Desire strongly – yes, to join

the Navy! (5)

30 Through which to see a girl’s love

for Romeo (5)

31 Prepared, once more, for

the new day (5)

32 It’s played a great deal for nothing (4)

33 Each can bring a yearning (4)

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