Two straight crosswords – but their clues have been mixed up. You have to decide which clue is relevant to each grid.

Horizontal: 3. Darkest black - Tooth on a gear wheel, 7. Fruit group - Snapshot, 8. Four-footed animal - Traditional cake, 9. Low item of furniture (6,5) - Unimportant MP, 11. Avoidable - Control of temper, 16. Sensible - Show clearly, 20. Luckless - Make used to house work, 24. Absurdly silly event - Long-necked bird, 25. Following - Indian sarong, 26. Number in an pair - Put on clothes Vertical: 1. Oil cartel (1,1,1,1) - Young sheep, 2. Box for the dead - Football, 3. Fruit of the pine tree - Side of door frame, 4. At that time - Surplus, 5. Child without parents - Middle East, 6. Close by - Cow house, 10. Epoch - Visual organ, 12. Lubricate - Maiden name indicator, 13. Hearing organ - Tin cylinder, 14. Group of tennis games - Sussex town, 15. Sign of the Chinese Zodiac - Starting signal, 17. Animal type - Hard work, 18. Covering for the head - Take a pew, 19. Celtic paradise - Shortage or lack of, 20. Football authority (inits) - Wharf, 21. Cooking fat - Oboe part, 22. Orang-..., ape - Prefix meaning “India”, 23. EC currency unit - Lengthy tale

There are 9 variants:

• Clues (see above)
• Scrambled
• The letters of a word without N - Z
• The letters of a word without A - M
• 2 out of 4 (similar to Trice as Nice)
• The letters of a word without vowels
• The letters of a word without consonants
• Fill-In (list of words)
• Calculated (this variant gives letters a value - A=1 ... Z=26 -, and the clues are the result of multiplication of all values of the word - see Logicals)
   

This type of puzzle is available in many different sizes, symmetries, shapes and designs.

Dilemma is more difficult when the horizontal and vertical words are mixed together in the list (optional).