CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
1 Watch band (5) 6 Snag (5)
9 Iraqi capital
(7) 10 Conspiracy (5) 11 1,000
kilograms (5) 12 Wooden peg
(5)
13 Begins again
(7)
15 Statute (3) 17 Unfortunately
(4)
18 Lethargic (6) 19 Student (5) 20 Red wine (6) 22 Snare (4) 24 Concealed (3) 25 Assembles
(7)
26 Ultimate (5) 27 Moral principle
(5)
28 Vision (5) 29 Not artificial
(7)
30 Verdant (5) 31 Forest clearing
(5)
DOWN
2 Move (6) 3 Counting frame
(6)
4 Friend (3) 5 Disarray (5) 6 Loathsome
(7)
7 Object of
worship (4)
8 A dance (6) 12 First game (5) 13 American farm
(5)
14 Cold dish (5) 15 Liquid measure
(5)
16 Sheds tears
(5) 18 Rope-making
fibre (5)
19 Aquatic bird
(7) 21 Rubbish (6) 22 Excite (6) 23 Curved (6) 25 Whole range
(5) 26 Penalty (4) 28 Droop (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 High wind -
dammit! (5) 6 Because vice is a bit nice? (5)
9 One with ideas about French sculpture? (7)
10 Put down new track and pass on (5) 11 Flits around in
shafts (5) 12 Dismisses from the game (5)
13 Acted like a
coward (7) 15 Silent woman?
(3)
17 We’re wrong to get in jug (4)
18 Speak well of the wild ape, sir (6) 19 Appeals from
Aspel? (5) 20 Creatures one dreads unreasonably? (6)
22 Various oils used in making fodder (4) 24 Rob him in a
novel way (3) 25 By getting batsmen out he should win (4,3) 26 There are different ways perpetually to show contempt (5)
27 A monastic
custom? (5) 28 Writing in favour of the Kentish area (5)
29 Save a half dead survivor? (7)
30 Left a woman right at the bar (5)
31 The kinds to step out lively when the party’s finished (5)
DOWN
2 To deceive is mean, but you need to keep out of trouble (3,3)
3 Racy lodger? (6) 4 My rhyme for
your word (3) 5 Old style hair
net (5)
6 Peter named the vendors (7)
7 Fairish girl?
(4)
8 Such a fruit has an unusual crust covering part of it (6)
12 They can sound tuneful across the meadow (5)
13 Raced frantically into the wood (5) 14 Too thin to be much good in the garden? (5)
15 Note the little car on the motorway (5) 16 Do men consume half a loaf with one? (5)
18 Pop an ear-piece on your head! (5) 19 He does an impressive job (7)
21 Amount of medicine that will suffice for the wise (6) 22 Such a clear night, half of us need to wait for (6)
23 Just the girl to fib about a fool? (6)
25 Start a drunken
binge (5)
26 The President’s
XI? (4) 28 Favourite sort of shop for certain boys (3)