CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
1 Stage whisper
(5)
6 Compass point
(5)
9 Gathered (7) 10 Warehouse (5) 11 Stringed
instrument (5) 12 Notices (5) 13 Floor coverings
(7)
15 Catered (3) 17 Not at home
(4)
18 Stick together
(6)
19 Wash (5) 20 Sentry group
(6)
22 Fibber (4) 24 Secret agent (3) 25 Widely (7) 26 Fruit (5)
27 Step (5)
28 Fire (5) 29 Dream (7) 30 Church council
(5)
31 Veracity (5)
DOWN
2 Playground item
(6)
3 Sagging (6) 4 Devour (3) 5 Applauds (5) 6 Part (7)
7 Poems (4) 8 Cashier (6) 12 Delay (5) 13 Stays outdoors
(5) 14 Bad-tempered
(5) 15 Disgusting (5) 16 Denigrate (5) 18 Bear (5) 19 Insured (7) 21 Sloth (6) 22 Froth (6) 23 Nearly (6) 25 Raise (5)
26 Ballpoint pen
(4)
28 Be seated (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 A cup can be said to contain five (5)
6 Musical chairs and other furniture (5)
9 For us to get Rosie upset is no laughing matter! (7)
10 A dangerous
pointer? (5) 11 Hair treatments for pools punters? (5) 12 The are served in many joints (5) 13 Competition from another railway (7)
15 It’s not at all clear in Bermuda (3) 17 Roderick’s river
(4)
18 A line you can credit with no difficulty (6) 19 Quick return by electric transport (5) 20 Dismays numerous relatives (6) 22 Fed back to the beginning in dextrous style (4)
24 In the RAF, short
missions (3) 25 Constantly though casually following a little chap (7) 26 Oddball taking Charlie to the station (5) 27 Fiendish participant in rude villainy (5) 28 Do wrong by going out for something to eat, perhaps (5) 29 Tiresome fellow with promises of payment (7) 30 Fastest afloat?
(5)
31 Bird with a
wooden leg! (5)
DOWN
2 Fearfully
apologetic? (6) 3 Line taken by the first person with wild boars (6)
4 What housewives have to do (3)
5 If coming up
short, is
suspicious (5) 6 Consume strong drink for sustenance (7)
7 Exploits the U.S. marines heartlessly! (4)
8 That fugitive casual worker followed by us! (6)
12 Studies something written on a wrecked car (5) 13 Composition for a boy to perform (5) 14 To us, a bit of
heaven (5) 15 Beaten on
board (5) 16 Immortal notes by a chap from Italy (5) 18 One bent on
villainy (5) 19 Young person playing with rattles (7) 21 The charm of a very quiet part of Ealing (6) 22 Remove a garment with some dirt on it (6) 23 Endlessly she makes bloomers all over the place! (6) 25 Conflicting points trouble the slowcoach (5)
26 Mention a sound location (4) 28 Transportation for the bigheaded American (3)