CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

8 Aged (7)

9 Made-up (9)

13 Hibernian (5)

14 Exclude (5)

15 Foster (7)

16 Whaling spear (7)

17 Spiny plants (5)

18 Eye part (5)

20 Might (5)

22 Stale (6)

23 Find not guilty (6)

25 Restrict (7)

27 Edible crustacean (7)

30 Protect (6)

31 Agreement (6)

32 Proportion (5)

35 Reasoning (5)

36 Adder (5)

37 Planet (7)

39 Miner (7)

41 Suggest (5)

42 Rustic (5)

43 Speaking two

languages (9)

44 Burial ceremony (7)

DOWN

1 Sword (6)

2 Busy travel period (4,4)

3 Jewellery item (7,4)

4 Computer

component (9)

5 Implement (7)

6 Chicanery (5-5)

7 Cab (4)

10 Accident (6)

11 Run away (7)

12 Holiday home (6)

19 Circumspect (7)

21 US state (7)

24 Light treacle (6,5)

26 Movie reviewer (4,6)

28 Doubting (9)

29 Lacking in integrity (7)

30 Choose (6)

32 Journalist (8)

33 Overtly (6)

34 Mean (7)

38 Furore (6)

40 Den (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

8 Something you could sing but you don’t (7)

9 Rushed like crazy: the sea was very rough (4,5)

13 Walk back a bit about a mile (5)

14 Telling a story to in bed, perhaps (5)

15 I shall get a plough round for work on the land (7)

16 Dish his out from the pot (7)

17 Crawling from bar to bar (5)

18 Bent on getting back the money (5)

20 Dear trousers (5)

22 Implore one to leave (6) 23 A doctor was ahead and set a slow pace (6)

25 Once playing outside, the sun will cheer them up (7)

27 Craft that, in Paris, I flow round the hotel (7)

30 The policeman caught the bogus padre outside (6)

31 Deliver when you buy back (6)

32 See turning this key in it (5)

35 The bit that makes the difference (5)

36 Remains on board, but is agitated (5)

37 Merely perplex, which is no advantage (7)

39 Hurried in, gets dressed and is not one’s usual self (7)

41 In row 6, seeing the big game (5)

42 Employ silver, in practice (5)

43 Feeling smart, is taking lessons (9)

44 Stole and was informed on (7)

DOWN

1 About fifty years’ collected broadcasts (6)

2 Get cups and put back the wine: he is drunk (8)

3 Are what’s required to complete the list of performers (4,3,4)

4 A fat horse munching grain inside (9)

5 Say to get the soldiers into action (7)

6 Vilifies when one tries to see if everybody’s present (5,5)

7 A mountain, so I find out, in Estonia (4)

10 Longed for, yet was irritated by (6)

11 For stealing paper, I’ll be put inside (7)

12 Stopped when the cold became less extreme (6)

19 Effective in providing information (7)

21 The dog, dear, doesn’t have a dish (7)

24 A rock band (7,4)

26 Quickly taking - a picture from below? (8,2)

28 The inference is, it’s a discount (9)

29 Having the news sink in, seem worried (7)

30 Is put in the stand to fight against (6)

32 One is curious (8)

33 Ruffled when given the chuck (6)

34 Agrees the twit at the net’s inept (7)

38 Article that’s not a follow-up? (6)

40 A really bad line (4)