CROSSWORD

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Faith (5) 6 Humid (5) 9 Mobile home

(7) 10 Recreation (5) 11 Opponent (5) 12 Custom (5) 13 Burnt sugar

(7) 15 Slippery fish

(3) 17 Particle (4) 18 Small case (6) 19 Backless seat

(5) 20 Amphitheatres

(6) 22 Prophet (4) 24 Guided (3) 25 Loser (4-3) 26 Unite (5) 27 Christmas song

(5) 28 Hurry (5) 29 Argument (7) 30 Passage (5) 31 Denounce (5) DOWN 2 Iterate (6) 3 Yell (6) 4 Rubbish (3) 5 Trite (5) 6 Of marriage (7) 7 Item (4) 8 Fruit (6) 12 Qualifying races

(5) 13 Man-made

waterway (5) 14 Paddled (5) 15 Type of duck

(5) 16 Gain knowledge

(5) 18 Material (5) 19 Sausage (7) 21 Remember (6) 22 Comfort (6) 23 Religious

festival (6) 25 Tally (5) 26 Act sulkily (4) 28 Concealed (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 He set out like

lightning! (5) 6 Brief encounter with a cleaner? (5) 9 How to phone a neighbourly publican (7) 10 Keep about a pound for some ointment (5) 11 Dislike of some paranoid musician’s arrangement (5) 12 Italian poet, though outwardly from Denmark (5) 13 Taken over

(7) 15 Maybe not a high speed (3) 17 The burden on the Americans (4) 18 She can reason

cleverly (6) 19 It’s better to be

thinner (5) 20 He lived near

Victoria (6) 22 Soft drink of

light colour (4) 24 Put a deposit down on a little nest (3) 25 How the prodigal son took a doze (7) 26 Show said to be worth a second look (5) 27 Shining, at

some stage, with a soft light (5) 28 If you need to accept money, make a reduction! (5) 29 More than one biblical character (7) 30 Irregularly in a strange way (5) 31 Not mine in the

making (5) DOWN 2 Paradise is a port out East (6) 3 Fishy revels,

possibly (6) 4 A digit to note

(3) 5 Food for the girl of the modern era? (5) 6 It serves an absorbing purpose for the writer (7) 7 Town railway to the remotest part of the countryside (4) 8 Condition induced by the study of Proust? (6) 12 Charge a bit for a couple of keys (5) 13 Like the point of returning to California? (5) 14 Girl accepting golf as a team game (5) 15 To father, middle-sized stone? (5) 16 In one’s non-dress suit? (5) 18 See about a half inch of water (5) 19 Just the road for unrestricted distance (7) 21 A horse led out, wrapped up warm (6) 22 Vessel for bonfire residue, useful in the garden (6) 23 It makes things rise, but not exactly to heaven (6) 25 It doesn’t taste so good with soap on (5) 26 A nautical one is different from a list (4) 28 Usually wooden parachute component (3)