CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Emerge from
an egg (5) 6 Garden plant (5) 9 Small stream
(7)
10 Watch band (5) 11 Rascal (5) 12 Antitoxin (5) 13 Regain (7) 15 Use a spade (3) 17 Portent (4) 18 Make up one’s
mind (6) 19 Sheds tears (5) 20 In other words
(4,2)
22 Thaw (4) 24 Teacher’s title
(3)
25 Mythical winged
horse (7)
26 Thin biscuit (5) 27 Pungent (5) 28 Glazing paste
(5)
29 Not either (7) 30 Glib talk (5) 31 Wallow (5)
DOWN
2 National song
(6)
3 Colouring stick
(6)
4 Pelvis (3) 5 Purchaser (5) 6 Studies (7) 7 Particle of
matter (4) 8 Apish (6) 12 Scorches (5) 13 Ancestry, family
origins (5) 14 Tree (5) 15 Plunges (5) 16 Men’s public
lavatory (5) 18 Postpone
(5)
19 Refuge (7) 21 Singultus (6) 22 Grown-up (6)
23 Reflected light
(6)
25 Trivial (5) 26 Vino (4) 28. For every (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Possibly grips
a branch (5) 6 Wide boy out
of order (5) 9 One vessel on which another may be stood (7)
10 It’s brilliant, being like Alfred! (5) 11 Scottish proprietary line in cooking fat (5)
12 Copper maybe making a name with the police (5)
13 It’s right for an amended clause to be non-religious (7)
15 Came down in
flames? (3) 17 Poetry from the antipodes (4)
18 Clarify the chance of being fined a quarter of a Euro (6) 19 Fought for love and a kiss in bed (5) 20 During some winters, everybody gets more grown-up (6)
22 Fully occupy
Phil, say (4) 24 Property of Mephistopheles (3) 25 Mashed praties can be bad at sea (7)
26 It won’t be denied its association with the cavalry (5)
27 You can get 509, that is, in a mess tin (5)
28 It precedes a
removal (5) 29 Does it shed fresh light on astronomy? (3,4)
30 Bob from Sandy
Lane (5)
31 A name for sham woollen fabric? (5)
DOWN
2 Having said goodbye, depart in distress (6) 3 Classic high flier who got too hot (6) 4 Obtained leave at the end of August (3)
5 The attendant
in the hall (5) 6 Behind schedule and in the red, we’re told (7) 7 Like a test of
morality? (4) 8 Limner turned
wizard (6) 12 Officer of the
crown (5)
13 It’s down in the direction of “27 Across” (5)
14 Sources of electricity in prison? (5) 15 The bounds of fictorial imitation (5) 16 Possibly lets out to a pupil (5)
18 Lived up to a bad name (5)
19 Possibly bent around a little, to fit centrally (7)
21 How the aviator vents his views? (6) 22 Celebrity consuming some wine during a shortage (6) 23 Table vegetable containing gum (6)
25 Soft lump: could be cuddly (5)
26 Can one name
her? (4)
28 A shock for the
head! (3)