CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Angry (5) 6 Indicate (5) 9 Cheese (7) 10 Tale (5) 11 Molars (5) 12 Strips of wood

(5) 13 Sportsman (7) 15 Craft (3) 17 Genuine (4) 18 Bomb-hole (6) 19 Wash (5) 20 Hope (6) 22 Indian dress

(4)

24 Pig-pen (3) 25 Treachery (7) 26 Regretful (5) 27 Cutlery item

(5)

28 Devout (5) 29 Part (7) 30 Furnishings

(5)

31 Fraction (5)

DOWN

2 Turn (6) 3 Manuscript (6) 4 Timid (3) 5 Confuse (5) 6 Design (7) 7 Minerals (4) 8 Character (6) 12 Took unlawfully

(5)

13 Regions (5) 14 Cheerful (5) 15 Book of maps

(5)

16 Coach (5) 18 Bear (5) 19 Singer (7) 21 Metal fastener

(6)

22 Salty (6) 23 Sturdy (6) 25 Hackneyed

(5)

26 Average (2-2) 28 Cooking vessel

(3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Historic vessel just about wrecked (1-4) 6 Spoon, in a big way, with Della (5) 9 Benny’s on record as a nice chap (7) 10 Having taken the lead with an own goal, looked appreciative (5) 11 Instrument that could be a collector’s piece (5)

12 A bolt possibly

shot (5) 13 Here’s a fishy clue for you (7)

15 Fixed the telly?

(3)

17 Apparently unpleasant! (4)

18 Figures there’s a quarter to share out (6) 19 Reminder of past dereliction (5)

20 Choose quietly to make an allusion (6) 22 Except for the road to the south (4)

24 It can be said to be agreeable (3)

25 In formal communications, the “F” word (7) 26 Quality of a

new mitre (5) 27 Tobacco in a

wrapper (5) 28 A charmer with wit and a bit of charisma (5) 29 Hairy description of a revolutionary leader (7) 30 No thin scattering of seed around the end of the garden (5) 31 Acts of documentation (5)

DOWN

2 VIP presumably having a large head? (6) 3 Bureau specialising in mediation? (6)

4 The solitary

Mr Sloan (3) 5 Are about to act in worship (5) 6 Sententious, perhaps, but brief and to the point (7) 7 Being infirm, wane again (4)

8 The girl and boy had a certain rhythm (6)

12 Strong resentment of strangers? (5)

13 Barker junior

(5)

14 The rest of the

night (5)

15 A top performer holding one make music (5)

16 An egghead, seemingly encamped, is dogmatic (5) 18 On the surface, one knocked out (5)

19 Is his office a “booking” one? (7)

21 Accuse of being just about wicked? (6) 22 Walk about a

yard? (6) 23 Uttered by a dove flying around, I see (6)

25 To make a gift when out of breath, must be a struggle! (5)

26 Wild rams deified in ancient Rome (4)

28 What a packer might use, a soldier might eat (3)