TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
1 Perspire (5)
6 Perceive (5)
9 Order (7)
10 Choose (5) 11 Eskimo dwelling (5) 12 Emblem (5) 13 Wander aimlessly (7) 15 Permit (3)
17 Prepare for
publication (4) 18 Lower (5)
20 Hotel patron (6) 22 Periods of time (4) 24 Finish (3) 25 Sportsman (7) 26 Tables (5)
27 Warning device (5) 28 Cloudy (5) 29 Withdrew (7) 30 Lukewarm (5) 31 Short (5)
DOWN
2 Drooped (6)
3 Stress (6) 4 Youngster (3) 5 Smudge (5)
6 Laugh derisively (7) 7 Border (4)
8 Win points (6) 12 Flogs (5)
13 Blend (5)
14 Helped (5)
15 Big (5)
16 Taut (5)
18 Hollows (5) 19 Dirtied (7) 21 Foolish (6)
22 Refer indirectly (6) 23 Musical studies (6) 25 Change (5)
26 Fairly (4) 28 Encountered (3)
ACROSS
1Christine has only one, we hear (5)
6 To hop around in a picture (5)
9 Vessel a car has reversed into (7)
10 Where to have a belt instead of going to bed (5) 11 Name a person uniquely (5)
12 Source of many a bad thing (5)
13 He caters for joint purchasers (7)
15 Spanish police hero (3)
17 She’s less than a mile ahead (4)
18 As clue, perhaps, one can say it’s an article (6) 19 Billy’s nonsense rhyme (5)
20 There’s a way to get new seed from these plants (6) 22 Figure a way to get a catalogue (4)
24 Colour of most animals (3)
25 Weapon in the musical armoury (7)
26 With which to fight or box out East (5)
27 Do fully, as before (5)
28 It’s tasteful to remark about an officer (5)
29 The coming of a hard-hearted competitor (7) 30 One man working for another (5)
31 Tube transporting me to some tropical part (5)
2 Save some reserve for Rod (6)
3 Burn up the track (6)
4 A drink for the totally friendless (3)
5 Timber usually as a brace (5)
6 Clearly, no score is possible during play (7)
7 It’s infernal down there (4)
8 In which we serve (6)
12 I send for him (5)
13 Oh, blow it (5)
14 Thanks a chap when given a lift (5)
15 A mongrel at Number Ten? That’s a rare thing (5) 16 A wing-shaped letter (5)
18 Fully understood to be like crystal (5)
19 Where sailors call for some tea in mere jest (7) 21 Getting stronger due to the polishing (6)
22 The place where the pub key is to be found (6) 23 One waltzing across the ice? (5)
25 Is in the lab when he turns up (5)
26 Constance’s boy (4)
28 He makes a boy a stronger man (3)
ACROSS: 3, Pairs; 8, Games; 10, Earth; 11, Bet; 12, Aloft; 13, Retorts; 15, Eyrie; 18, Kit; 19, Errants; 21, Remains; 22, Iron; 23, Hind; 24, Skirted; 26, Closes; 29, Eel; 31, Hired; 32, Tadpole; 34, Waist; 35, Fat; 36, Beret; 37, Mural; 38, Rears.
1, Label; 2, Betoken; 4, Ails; 5, Refers; 6, Satyr; 7, Stain; 9, Met; 12, Attacks; 14, Rim; 16, Rapid; 17, Etude; 19, Entreat; 20, Pinch; 21, Rotor; 23, Helpful; 24, Sedate; 25, Ted; 27, Lived; 28, Sewer; 30, Altar; 32, Tsar; 33, Oar.
3, First; 8, Mo-tor; 11, Fur; 12, Driver; 13, Manners; 18, One; 19, NE-wish; 22, Loot; 23, F-air; 26, Castor; 29, Den; 31, Enter; 34, Nelly; 35, Ace; 36, Heats; 38, Soles.
1, So far; 2, Torn out; 4, Iris; 6, Throw; 7, P-erks; 9, Tun; 12, D-red-ger; 14, End; 16, Rival; 17, Shirt; 19, Next day; 20, P-lace; 21, Mo-l-st; 23, Fondant; 24, Moreso; 25, Hen; 27, Andes; 28, Tents; 30, Stern; 32, Blue; 33, (Nov)ice.