DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS 4 Squabble (6)

7 Snake (8)

8 Hair colour (6)

10 Tolerate (5)

13 Hollow (4)

14 Unaccompanied (4)

15 Lubricates (4)

16 Secret agent (3)

17 Formal dance (4)

19 Horse’s gait (4)

21 Wild plant (9)

23 Planet (4)

24 Temperate (4)

26 Unopened flower (3)

27 Feeble person (4)

29 Cupid (4)

32 Greek letter (4)

33 Molar (5)

34 Hat type (6)

35 Comic verse (8)

36 Use (6)

DOWN

1 Of birth (5)

2 Ancient language (5)

3 Golfer’s warning (4)

4 Ring-shaped roll (5)

5 Bevel (4)

6 Excused (6)

9 Introduce gradually (6)

11 Container (3)

12 Exclude (5)

13 Predicament (7)

15 Aged (3)

16 Male progeny (3)

18 Solution (6)

20 Cowboy display (5)

21 Father (3)

22 Impudent talk (3)

23 Curator’s

workplace (6)

25 Toddler (3)

28 European country (5)

30 Songbird (5)

31 Vibrate (5)

32 Cook in hot water (4)

33 Elm, say (4) CRYPTIC ACROSS 4 They’re driven home by twisters (6)

7 Under a bridge, the wrong

road home? (8)

8 Forest sound on an old record (6)

10 Otherwise called a sail? (5)

13 Chap getting out of a manhole? (4)

14 Kind of cat to make a fellow cross? (4)

15 Burning spirit (4)

16 Favourite trumpet piece (3)

17 It’s wet at Oxford (4)

19 In one’s vintage days? (4)

21 Kept in a glass case, so to speak! (7,2)

23 Tom East’s book (4)

24 Each way, there’s no trouble (4)

26 He brings a bit of joy to a redhead (3)

27 Headless spear with a

tapering shape (4)

29 Lids slipped out of position (4)

32 Two-way air traveller? (4)

33 Declare a saintly brew of tea! (5)

34 Aliens can provide a salty solution (6)

35 Publication that invites imitation (8)

36 See the obvious, though it’s not

meant to be seen (6)

DOWN

1 Each new motorway starts near Sutton! (5)

2 Bad stain in fabric (5)

3 Weapon involving terrible risk? (4)

4 Vilify me in a sarcastic piece (5)

5 Fully ready to rebuild the pier (4)

6 Pallid little man, but in demand (6)

9 Appeals for quiet hints (6)

11 Palladium’s youth centre (3)

12 It’s accepted to bring order to a

cricket team (5)

13 Damsel I possibly cause to go astray (7)

15 If turning up on Tuesday, is quite

suitable (3)

16 Go in hope, possibly (3)

18 Intercede with a new composition for

spinet (4,2)

20 Is such a star there to be entertained? (5)

21 Just the sort of hood for a youth? (3)

22 Are misguidedly upsetting a listener (3)

23 It’s ruddy ripe! (6)

25 Equipment that leaves one’s friends, etc.,

breathless! (3)

28 Standing proudly before the court (5)

30 Formerly capital way to get goals (5)

31 Couple involved in canasta aboard ship? (5)

32 At a push, most people could ride one (4)

33 River to cross with some style,

one fancies (4)