CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Clever (5) 6 Flower (5) 9 Previously (7) 10 Faith (5) 11 Note value (5) 12 Pungent (5) 13 Fish (7) 15 Moist (3) 17 Large shrub (4) 18 Spanish dance
(6)
19 Engaged (5) 20 Trial (6) 22 Carpenter’s
tool (4) 24 Period of time
(3)
25 Denial (7) 26 Metal fastener
(5)
27 Fulcrum (5) 28 Husband,
informally (5) 29 Fruit (7) 30 Wading bird (5) 31 Take unlawfully
(5)
DOWN
2 Building
material (6) 3 Dwell (6) 4 Rubbish (3) 5 Cut (5)
6 Minor deity (7) 7 Dry (4)
8 Shard (6) 12 Smith’s block
(5)
13 Got up (5) 14 Prepared (5) 15 Unwanted
plants (5) 16 Drying cloth
(5)
18 Brimless cap
(5)
19 Natural surroundings (7) 21 Enthusing (6) 22 Month (6)
23 African country
(6) 25 Remunerate (5) 26 Flowing garment
(4)
28 Owns (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Is what hens do in the Hebrides (5)
6 A growing reason for my backwardness in an article (5)
9 Make a special item of a fine performance on the river (7) 10 Skill in boatbuilding? (5)
11 Angry with a charge at the medical centre (5)
12 Make a mess of a confection? (5)
13 A country lover
(7)
15 Young socialite just starting (3)
17 Set among some pyramids (4)
18 Go back to bed
(6) 19 Something to do with a wheel (5)
20 For preference, take a bite out of a choc-ice (6)
22 Takes a rest from veracity! (4)
24 A female in the
news (3) 25 Outstanding foreigner in the street (7)
26 Full of non-vegetarian substance (5) 27 This little fellow is a cross one when deprived of pie (5) 28 Piece of sticky
paper (5) 29 Gossip to read to a backward lad (7)
30 Keep quiet about mum’s contribution to an accident (5)
31 Sources of water in Somerset (5)
DOWN
2 Current way to get on paper (6) 3 Pay for a piece of Staffordshire china (6)
4 Still rising in
late years (3) 5 Strong drink
(5)
6 A piece of a
piece (7) 7 Present her
with a key (4) 8 The question of how mother holds a tin opener (6) 12 No way to play
piano (5) 13 Area or path around central Whitechapel (5)
14 Athenian with his own way of working in metal (5) 15 Down south, a team has to fade out (5) 16 Start back east with a donkey, say (5) 18 Early form of team contest (5)
19 Sound highly
owlish! (7) 21 It may cause the balloon to go up (6) 22 Short novel ending with a new title (6)
23 Colourful coat with a name in it (6) 25 Grand place to watch the match? (5) 26 In America, the unmarried state (4) 28 Made sure to help with the washing up (3)