CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Chair on poles
(5)
6 Street urchin (5) 9 Garland (7) 10 Stare angrily
(5)
11 Ballots (5) 12 Warning device
(5)
13 Urban
inhabitant (7) 15 Deity (3)
17 Dry (4) 18 Supplementary
building (6) 19 Makes beer (5) 20 Illegal acts (6) 22 Therefore (4) 24 Possessed (3) 25 Underground
cell (7)
26 Colour (5) 27 Meat in rashers
(5)
28 Muscular (5) 29 Cough syrup (7) 30 Greek letter (5) 31 Tyrants (5)
DOWN
2 Cream cake
(6) 3 Frightened (6) 4 Born (3) 5 Tarnish (5) 6 Rules (7) 7 Soon (4) 8 Fridge compartment (6) 12 Scorches (5) 13 Capture (5) 14 Timorous (5) 15 Kind, category
(5)
16 Fiend (5) 18 Very bad (5) 19 Plant (7) 21 Plunder (6) 22 Exit (6)
23 Sam Torrance,
say (6)
25 Move to music
(5)
26 Young horse (4) 28 However (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Cake munched at the back of the parsonage (5)
6 Rotund wild bees are too well fed (5) 9 Merely look on as a useful thing to have available (5,2)
10 Fairy keeping a team in food (5)
11 Poor fellow from a backward part around Minehead (5) 12 It’s religiously worn in a certain joint (5)
13 One letter, in sorting mail, is not much! (7)
15 Joined the
police (3) 17 Hypnotist’s
name? (4) 18 Distractedly dream about one to worship (6)
19 Lord, he’s no end of trouble! (5)
20 Its nominal contents are not inflammable (6)
22 In public address, the dear old chap repeats himself (4) 24 Set alight during
the Blitz (3) 25 Crime with a Middle Eastern motive (7) 26 Tabitha’s thankless usual arrangement? (5)
27 Ultimate piece of reproof in a long lecture (5)
28 Those butcher
boys (5) 29 Corrected by the appropriate editor (7) 30 Peruse a letter from a novelist (5)
31 Liquid, methinks
not ink (5)
DOWN
2 Draw out what is notedly lawful (6) 3 Ancient god, or Isis, possibly (6)
4 Dined in a noble
chateau (3) 5 Smith’s property in an East Anglian village (5)
6 Stick out as a deviant doubter (7)
7 Animal shelter one gets past again (4)
8 Time and a
quarter (6) 12 Wine for a fellow accommodating company (5) 13 Many have said it’s ethical (5)
14 Time for a jar
with a bird (5) 15 Dim as can
be, he was touchingly gifted (5) 16 Statesman like Lyndon Johnson (5) 18 Ready to see the beer doesn’t get left (5) 19 Upsetting her makes Ian late (7)
21 For comparison, is maybe over a mile (6) 22 Show off in a street of shops (6)
23 Dope tree
fertiliser? (6) 25 Being high, it rhymes with “height” (5) 26 It’s tough, being deceived outright (4) 28 Border of the British Empire? (3)