TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
3 Respond in a manner possibly somewhat creative (5) 8 Sharpen up (5)
10 They can be sung in a sari (5)
11 Silent parent? (3)
12 I roam around with a New Zealander (5)
13 Elgin’s game? (7)
15 Such transaction as Les can arrange (5)
18 Chap with an angle on publicity (3)
19 To pile untidly is quite decent (6)
21 To me, a team can be foreign (7)
22 Has he nothing to spoil? (4)
23 Tear out of the barren desert (4)
24 Much praised in letters about a relative (7)
26 Gun part containing oil? (6)
29 Jerry’s drinking companion (3)
31 Troubles viewers may have (5)
32 Leaves the semi-nude bits (7)
34 Bloomer causing a stern curtailment (5)
35 To call it groovy is not the whole truth (3)
36 Is led astray by a colourful picture (5)
37 Hank’s bunch of fliers (5)
38 Beastly laziness (5) 1 West country wench? (5)
2 Falling glass (7)
4 Period of camera-shyness (4)
5 Vehicles ahead of Kit (6)
6 Test of legality? (5)
7 Artist up at 10am (5)
9 No cat, but it shows some curiosity (3) 12 Possibly claimed curative (7)
14 Being remiss makes some ladies cross (3) 16 Kept going raising the devil (5)
17 Like a top player out of condition (5) 19 Somehow pertain to an artist (7)
20 Mills, say, bobs around a lot (5)
21 Wed a woman outright (5) 23 Observations about cricketer Vic? (7) 24 Ship wrecked by ourselves finally (6) 25 The best to finish up with (3)
27 One piece bikini, say (5)
28 Studies plants, we hear (5)
30 A teetotaler I see upstairs (5)
32 Damage in sudden temper (4) 33 Continental street plant (3)
EASY PUZZLE
ACROSS
3 Card-game (5)
8 Chose (5)
10 Sum (5)
11 Knock (3)
12 Plant life (5)
13 Wedded (7)
15 Court official (5)
18 Before (3)
19 Dress (6)
21 Vein (7)
22 Eye part (4)
23 Curve (4)
24 Covered (7)
26 Expressing disapproval (6) 29 Floor-covering (3) 31 Beach area (5)
32 Mythical creature (7) 34 Lubricated (5)
35 Go wrong (3)
36 Cultivates (5)
37 Worries (5)
38 Motionless (5)
EASY SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1, Crash; 6, State: 9, Paprika; 10, Storm; 11, Inert; 12, Hails; 13, Trigger; 15, Ant; 17, Ends; 18, Better; 19, Start; 20, Starch; 22, Smut; 24, Eel; 25, Attests; 26, Blush; 27, Cheap; 28, Floor; 29, Legatee; 30, Grill; 31, Edits.
DOWN: 2, Return; 3, Sprigs; 4, Ham; 5, Friar; 6, Skillet; 7, Tans; 8, Throne; 12, Heath; 13, Terse; 14, Ideal; 15, Atoms; 16, Trots; 18, Broth; 19, Scalpel; 21, Tether; 22, Sealed; 23, Utmost; 25, Asian; 26, Ball; 28, Fee.
DOWN
1 Atomiser (5)
2 Make unhappy (7) 4 Contain (4)
S Walks cockily (6)
6 Grilled bread (5)
7 Light beer (5)
9 Seamen (3)
12 Sensation (7)
14 Wrath (3)
16 Rented (5)
17 Prepared (5)
19 Took for granted (7) 20 Coarse people, slang (5) 21 Worker’s organisation (5) 23 Superiors (7)
24 Demand (6)
25 Smuggled (3)
27 Desert watering-place (5) 28 Worshipped images (5) 30 Is painful (5)
32 Prison chamber (4) 33 Exist (3)
CRYPTIC SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1, Steam; 6, S-all-y; 9, Mac-Beth; 10, G-roan; 11, Round; 12, Decay; 13, Da-home-y; 15, Dot; 17, Iron; 18, Refine; 19, Atlas; 20, Clutch; 22, Fast; 24, Ham; 25, P-lain-ly; 26, Fleas; 27, S-of-ia; 28, Kings; 29, LI-be-ria; 30, Realm; 31, Plant.
DOWN: 2 Tar-tar; 3, A-ma-zon; 4, Man (rev); 5, Abbey; 6, St-RAF-ES; 7, Ahoy; 8, L-on-Don; 12, Depth; 13, D-itch; 14, Ho-kum; 15, Di-Van; 16, Testy; 18, Rails; 19, AC-claim; 21, La-ho-re; 22, Filial; 23, Slog-an; 25, Pa-p-er; 26, Fill; 28, Kip.