CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
4 Trainees (6) 7 Unnatural (8) 8 Choice (6) 10 Water vapour (5) 13 Askew (4) 14 Fling (4) 15 Yearn (3)
16 Dolt (3)
17 Baby carriage (4) 19 Deserve (4) 21 Call into
question (9) 23 Castle surround
(4)
24 Facility (4) 26 Plaything (3) 27 Multitude (4) 29 Undiluted (4) 32 Lairs (4) 33 Condition (5) 34 Jungle
expedition (6) 35 Salve (8)
36 Jail (6)
DOWN
1 Draconian (5) 2 Rage (5) 3 Percussion
instrument (4) 4 Joker (5) 5 Import tax (4) 6 Of Troy (6) 9 Cleanse
feathers (6) 11 Towboat (3) 12 Greek letter (5) 13 Without
purpose (7) 15 Friend (3) 16 Mineral (3) 18 Somewhat (6) 20 Representative
(5)
21 Shy (3) 22 Consume (3) 23 Angora (6) 25 Corpulent (3) 28 Edible bulb (5) 30 Keen (5) 31 Canvas shelters
(5)
32 Fingerprints (4) 33 Takes a seat (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
4 Hasten to make the price a dollar higher (4,2)
7 Irregular way to get the horse out? (8)
8 It needs a hot
iron (6)
10 Cry a little during
the race (5) 13 The classy kind
(4)
14 Finally, she may seem breathless (4) 15 Is romance too much for her? (4)
16 That flier from
Milwaukee (3) 17 An angling term meaning “reel” (4)
19 To get thanks for fifty quid seems very unlikely (4) 21 Intercepted and
executed? (6,3) 23 See everybody gets the message (4) 24 Is there many a skill in throwing one? (4)
26 Bird often heard chattering by the Dee (3) 27 Heavy cable? (4) 29 He could hardly fail to see himself in the mirror (4)
32 Bit of a clever
yarn, it’s true (4) 33 A reader can do
so, literally (5) 34 In which a player has to leap madly? (6) 35 Just a single song, or possibly duets about oil refining (8) 36 You may have forgotten having shaken it (6)
DOWN
1 Searches for a little bit of old England (5) 2 Rosie’s willowy
form (5)
3 In truth a loud
performance (4) 4 Sweeper used by a blockhead with some awkwardness (5)
5 Weapon used as a tin opener by an army officer (4) 6 Handy form of
fuel for us (6) 9 One up on a soap box or a hill (6)
11 Lived in
Kawasaki (3) 12 One responsible for a holdup in picture production? (5) 13 Eventually it could be AM or PM (4,3) 15 The right I had
to be free (3) 16 Person of vital
force (3)
18 It contains some money, and it’s possible to get the rest from Wall Street (6)
20 Are possibly about a foot behind (5) 21 One may hit it
wearily (3) 22 He’s brought up just like mum (3)
23 In the judge’s chambers, to change a mac takes a long time (6)
25 It’s rare for this morsel to be cheese on toast! (3) 28 Remove a slip
(5)
30 It requires the removal of some vermin, usually (5)
31 A revolting
fellow? (5) 32 Contributor to the pressure behind a current movement (4) 33 One with a punishing job in politics? (4)