CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Defame (5) 6 Settees (5) 9 Outdoor

garment (7) 10 Exaggeratedly

masculine (5) 11 Holiday home

(5)

12 Shoe fasteners

(5)

13 Cook’s room (7) 15 Female under

garment (3) 17 Experts (4) 18 Decorating tool

(6) 19 Fast-moving (5) 20 Brutish person

(6)

22 Greek letter (4) 24 Young goat (3) 25 Weekday (7) 26 Animal’s nose

(5)

27 Senior monk (5) 28 Opposite of

heads (5) 29 Remainder (7) 30 Ague (5) 31 Shallow round

dish (5)

DOWN

2 Slanting type (6) 3 Moral principles

(6)

4 Lavatory (3) 5 Large sea (5) 6 Smoked

sausage (7) 7 Boy’s name (4) 8 Attractiveness

(6)

12 Lawful (5) 13 Canoe-like boat

(5)

14 Lukewarm (5) 15 Vital fluid (5) 16 Impressive

collection (5) 18 Refute (5) 19 Artist (7)

21 Small quick bite

(6)

22 Country (6) 23 Pill (6)

25 Spring plant (5) 26 Painful (4) 28 Ram (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Long piece of platitudinous tripe (5) 6 Anything that can reform a thug (5)

9 Fades away due to negligible expenditure in diet (4,3) 10 Number of points about a woman (5) 11 Just what, apparently, a skinhead isn’t! (5) 12 Statesman a hothead can possibly hate (5) 13 Entertaining review of human blunders? (7) 15 Radio used in Morse transmission (3)

17 A line of taxis

(4)

18 It’s easy to concoct lies about a politician (6) 19 The name would be shorter without it being diminutive (5) 20 Make something out of nothing (6) 22 Connects it

wrongly at two

points (4) 24 Agreement in every essential (3)

25 Old fashioned jug, or maybe porridge, termed vile (7)

26 See someone sit next to a girl (5) 27 Soldier in a raincoat for a spell, perhaps (5)

28 Singer, very young, getting nothing right (5)

29 His pursuit is

baseball (7) 30 Drive back so as to swim around the pierhead (5) 31 Theatrical utterance possibly said to echo (5) DOWN

2 TV Jack may be

in (3,3)

3 Is out of place in ethical considerations! (6)

4 It gets stuck

quietly in (3) 5 Remains as

he is (5) 6 Whence Rita would be crazy to go to the wild U.S.A.! (7) 7 State it’s genteel to raise one’s hat (4) 8 Like this chap, Len had to become a composer (6) 12 Something to do with a sigh? (5)

13 Why this clue should tickle yours, is not plain! (5) 14 Survives terrible

evils (5)

15 Land where the bridge crosses the line (5) 16 Steer the short

way (5) 18 Strong drink (5) 19 It’s morally correct that I occupy a new chalet (7) 21 Entertain sumptuously, giving a chap beer (6) 22 Narrows as a spear may do at the farthest end (6)

23 Was sound, if

unoriginal (6) 25 Get rid of many a restless desire (5)

26 The sin of a

substitute? (4) 28 Drink and eat,

maybe (3)