CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the easy or the cryptic clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Spicy sausage (6)

7 Adorn (8)

8 End part (4)

10 Circus ring (6)

11 Pronouncement (6)

14 Lubricate (3)

16 Labours (5)

17 Roster (4)

19 Under (5)

21 Writing material (5)

22 To father (5)

23 Rosemary, say (4)

26 Post off (5)

28 Unopened flower (3)

29 Planet (6)

30 Bewail (6)

31 Press (4)

32 Alcoholic appetiser (8)

33 Deposit on teeth (6)

DOWN

1 Football (6)

2 Shrub (6)

3 Lazy (4)

4 Senior pupil (7)

5 Spicy Indian dish (5)

6 Rains heavily (5)

8 Horse’s gait (4)

9 Unwell (3)

12 Farm animal (3)

13 Open sore (5)

15 Native American tent

(5)

18 Elder (5)

19 Sack (3)

20 Permit (3)

21 Flowering plant (7)

22 Rubbish receptacle (3)

23 Comedy (6)

24 Paradise (4)

25 Trouble (6)

26 Rustic (5)

27 Pals (5)

28 Drinks counter (3)

30 Raise (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 A nautical lad will provide that extra piquancy (6)

7 When finished, take a

quick look (4,4)

8 To this, did Smollett

show favouritism? (4)

10 Seem offended

because British Rail’s not working? (6)

11 He’s capable of a nice contribution to public relations (6)

14 From here, there’s a fair

way to drive (3)

16 A podgy little chap can

still have such charm! (5)

17 Reduced crew on a royal

vessel (4)

19 Started to appeal for

some funds (5)

21 It goes to the wall in a

big way (5)

22 Females targeted along

with a friend! (5)

23 Try to systematise some

of the housekeeping (4)

26 A foundation, as exists

at Birkenhead (5)

28 On which to rest the

bottom? (3)

29 Where, in Ireland, one

gets a haircut (6)

30 Cosmeticised

inventively? (4,2)

31 One managed to find it on the map (4)

32 Quotations to scatter wildly around when you get cross? (8)

33 Joint holder (6)

DOWN

1 Sore about a bachelor

being drab (6)

2 Silk producer (6)

3 One knows the sound of

it being blown (4)

4 Afraid of getting a loud,

lengthy rebuke (7)

5 A woman’s not loveless,

as it happens (5)

6 There’s a sporting chance it has fishy contents (5)

8 The bit on the end is a

mere morsel (4)

9 Adam’s is alcohol free (3)

12 Is he of Caledonian

extraction? (3)

13 Not a useless object (5)

15 Accommodation for a

chap at a hotel (5)

18 Source of endless woe

to her husband? (5)

19 Food item that can go to

a woman’s head? (3)

20 Too much talk, as at the

Aldgate centre (3)

21 To sum up, I see a

novice in a show (7)

22 The bairn evidently has

wind (3)

23 Tipsily teased for being

sober (6)

24 This lovely place even

includes Land’s End (4)

25 Did smoking make it

sleepy? (6)

26 Revealed a matted beard

(5)

27 Miss Del or Cal, say, or

maybe Mo? (5)

28 Piece of music in the

pub? (3)

30 Does it not strike you as a stately abbreviation? (4)