CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Big (5)

6 Throw (5) 9 Abandon (7) 10 Admission (5) 11 Edition (5) 12 Pants (5) 13 Vacation (7) 15 Drinks counter

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17 Among (4) 18 Demure (6) 19 Scornful

expression (5) 20 Semi-precious

stone (6) 22 Assistant (4) 24 Health resort

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25 Normal (7) 26 Highland games

log (5) 27 Player’s first

game (5) 28 Swell (5) 29 Speaker’s

platform (7) 30 Command (5) 31 Sleep noisily (5)

DOWN

2 Haphazard (6) 3 Frightened (6) 4 Plaything (3) 5 Prose

composition (5) 6 Sea captain (7) 7 Not so much

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8 Nutty sweet (6) 12 Haggard (5) 13 Suspends (5) 14 Star sign (5) 15 Aromatic herb

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16 Allude (5) 18 Underground

drain (5) 19 Legislator (7) 21 Seem (6) 22 Season (6) 23 Knife (6) 25 Relaxes (5)

26 Heal (4) 28 Public transport

vehicle (3) CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Talk freely, giving the starting price away (5)

6 Manly Scot with a useless house (5) 9 Arrives to take refreshment after the performance (5,2)

10 Even staggering round the bend to a meeting place (5)

11 You can make

tea with it (5) 12 Speedy coppers participating in a raid (5) 13 Cocktail a motorcyclist may have (7) 15 Water from the

sidewalk (3) 17 One who exploits us with a half of beer (4)

18 The place for a strong, businesslike paper (6)

19 The rascal lived riotously (5) 20 Warm-hearted French friends of a Dumas musketeer (6) 22 Bit of a nasty

eye (4)

24 Rob him of

character! (3) 25 It’s decorative, possibly of stone (7) 26 Animal trainer whose act is less exciting? (5)

27 Badly bake a bit of bread, and it’s edible (5)

28 A tow-headed

girl, in fact (5) 29 Many a part of London is “on-Sea”! (7) 30 Virginia’s condition, perhaps? (5) 31 Exciting

present? (5)

DOWN

2 Summary of

new prices (6) 3 He takes too much interest (6)

4 An article shared by mother and

father (3)

5 Vow to give attention to certain points (5)

6 A show worth

hearing (7) 7 Copied some landscape drawings (4) 8 Composer of “Messiah” and “Elijah”, apparently (6) 12 Judges to be a wild aster (5) 13 Something refined brought back from Ragusa (5) 14 Notes a day out to be a bad thing! (5)

15 Do fully (5) 16 Have a rousing

effect on (5) 18 For faultless service on the motorway, he doesn’t want to pay! (5)

19 To give a girl fur may leave her helpless! (7) 21 Bobby’s old-fashioned peeler, perhaps? (6) 22 As a novelist, rename Ernest as Laurence (6)

23 Lads giving a wild shout at the close of play (6)

25 Fight to make robbery profitable? (5) 26 With diplomacy, volunteers to go to court (4)

28 Drink, little one

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