DOUBLE CROSSWORD
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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