DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

4 Avoid (6)

7 Snake (8)

8 Container (6)

10 Hibernian (5)

13 Price (4)

14 Fizzy water (4)

15 Supporters (4)

16 Anger (3)

17 Operator (4)

19 Water jug (4)

21 Translate (9)

23 Bellow (4)

24 Abominable

snowman (4)

26 Japanese money (3)

27 Eagerly expectant (4)

29 Attack (4)

32 Big cat (4)

33 Confuse (5)

34 Fruit (6)

35 Delphinium (8)

36 Joins (6)

DOWN

1 Foundation (5)

2 Logical (5)

3 Night insect (4)

4 Pigmeat (5)

5 Fortified wine (4)

6 Short fall of rain (6)

9 Aver (6)

11 Fish eggs (3)

12 Steam bath (5)

13 Continue (5,2)

15 Charge (3)

16 Animal doctor (3)

18 Stretch tight (6)

20 Eerie (5)

21 Charged particle (3)

22 Dowel (3)

23 Stay (6)

25 Nothing (3)

28 Objectives (5)

30 Skilful (5)

31 Disparage (5)

32 Ultimate (4)

33 Inquires (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

4 Word for a tailless wild leopard (6)

7 Water spilt with ease (5,3)

8 Having a brain like a sieve, can you

solve it? (6)

10 Mount of berries? (5)

13 Originally, Noah found it

intoxicating! (4)

14 Look for the letter a teetotaller’s

lost! (4)

15 Having taken the lead from the ship

astern? (4)

16 She partners me at golf (3)

17 Flier apt to have wet feet (4)

19 Gosh, it’s old-fashioned! (4)

21 Like our bird-brained friends (9)

23 Keep going to the end (4)

24 Deign to imitate a foreigner (4)

26 To a dunderhead, no means yes! (3)

27 Learn what’s in the area (4)

29 Speed past (4)

32 Livery company’s property, it’s

true (4)

33 She called back, Charlie being

absent (5)

34 Assert, in the outskirts of town,

there’s a pub (6)

35 Slack and undisciplined old

airport (8)

36 Pay for a seat (6)

DOWN

1 Live to a high standard at Land’s End (5)

2 Begin to break up the party (5)

3 When William’s in a state, Sean acts (4)

4 Where grisettes used to go around in

pairs (5)

5 Be carried in some different directions (4)

6 What the layabout did, collecting £50 in

dole maybe (6)

9 American medico getting a half of bitter

in a pub (6)

11 The contractor’s finished (3)

12 Sign meaning “arise anew”? (5)

13 Dash around in the road when you do the

laundry! (7)

15 Mine can be where the orchestra plays (3)

16 Many an advert seems crazy! (3)

18 One in a wet suit? (6)

20 They fly east-southeast at some stage (5)

21 A mere craze that starts fading (3)

22 For organ music? (3)

23 Find a couple of letters tucked in behind

the clock (6)

25 It’s not surprisingly jelly-like (3)

28 Bondsman! (5)

30 Clear line in plot (5)

31 Only two letters, but that’s fine! (5)

32 Worn part of an old gravestone (4)

33 Expected money for a fight (4)