CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Waterway (5) 6 For this reason

(5) 9 Obstruction

(7)

10 Cold dish (5) 11 Enrage (5) 12 Derogatory (5) 13 African republic

(7)

15 Jewel (3) 17 Sour (4) 18 Spanish dance

(6)

19 Storey (5) 20 Latitude (6) 22 Rush (4) 24 Newt (3) 25 Girl’s name (7) 26 Deviate (5) 27 Speciality (5) 28 Gangway (5) 29 Area of fruit

trees (7) 30 Paces (5) 31 Taut (5)

DOWN

2 Language (6) 3 Subsided (6) 4 Stripling (3) 5 Stadium (5)

6 Go towards

(4,3)

7 Sea eagle (4) 8 Intelligent (6) 12 Foolish (5) 13 Soup server

(5)

14 Bathroom fitting

(5)

15 Mean or intend

(3,2)

16 Strong coffee

(5)

18 Golf term (5) 19 Wavers (7) 21 Exertion (6) 22 Split up (6) 23 Edges along

(6)

25 Turning tool (5)

26 Halt (4) 28 Skill (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 See a security device with a timing mechanism (5) 6 Grounds for an about turn, just in case (5) 9 Keeps going to maintain a relative (5,2) 10 Be too curious about a spoilt son going to work (5) 11 There’s a future in this emporium (5) 12 Poet’s name for a fluttering heart (5)

13 The point claimed to be misrepresented? (7)

15 He contradicts

a gentleman (3) 17 It has a flat face with a certain amount of hair on (4) 18 Fox needing a bit of luck during a sportive deed (6)

19 Journal of a father and a childless person (5)

20 A scare, perhaps, for an ancient Roman (6)

22 Carefully examine a broken fist (4) 24 Big success in a Whitehall farce (3) 25 It was made

years ago (7) 26 Old-fashioned

engine driver (5) 27 Place two articles with only a short distance between (5) 28 Put off Sally, perhaps, having a dizzy head (5)

29 Work out how to remain acceptable? (4,3)

30 Draw a possibly finer conclusion (5)

31 Figure study (5)

DOWN

2 One yearning for more inches? (6) 3 Composer

who made church music fashionable (6) 4 Hill’s a bit of a slick operator (3)

5 It’s best one

goes to town (5) 6 Kevin could act the stern CO, possibly (7)

7 For certain players, cash in advance (4) 8 Open the

drapes? (6) 12 A dark mystery somewhere in Africa (5) 13 Dump at the

roadside? (5) 14 Want a customer for a tin opener (5) 15 A collectable dog one comes to love (5) 16 Celestial

cause of the tide changing at the quarteryear (5) 18 Figures out a piece of linen is strong material (5) 19 Someone to do business with? (7)

21 The flighty fellow’s collecting Maria at mid-morning (6)

22 Rocky beds (6) 23 Dawn, admired by Francophiles (6)

25 That plucky Marx Brother? (5)

26 A drink of benefit or interest (4) 28 Diagram having no place, being very faint (3)