CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Northern

Britons (5)

6 Dot (5)

9 Witty reply (7) 10 Took an exam

again (5) 11 Cross (5) 12 Smarts (5) 13 Least (7) 15 Policeman (3) 17 Of the ears

(4)

18 Fur (6) 19 Crockery item

(5)

20 Guides (6) 22 Fairy (4) 24 Stray (3) 25 Denial (7) 26 Stringed

instrument (5) 27 Mountain range

(5)

28 Ski-slope (5) 29 Rests (7) 30 Yielded (5) 31 Tossed (5)

DOWN

2 Believe (6) 3 Very sad (6) 4 Be seated (3) 5 Tycoon (5) 6 Height (7) 7 Writing implements (4)

8 Box (6) 12 Large rooms

(5)

13 Rodent (5) 14 African country

(5)

15 Quotes (5) 16 Danger (5) 18 Anaesthetic

(5)

19 Extolled (7) 21 Hypnotic state

(6)

22 Chastise (6) 23 Baby’s toy (6)

25 Synthetic

material (5) 26 Dry (4) 28 Favourite (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Easily heard by many a listener (5)

6 Extra lean (5) 9 Largess? Money, anyway (7)

10 It’s the pay that keeps sailors going (5) 11 School where a girl takes in golf (5) 12 Teeth, when bad, can be a snag for a fathead (5) 13 Mineral in a mountain pass? How funny! (7) 15 How about a cuddle, darling? (3)

17 He shows hesitation,

I see (4) 18 Have a policy to get elected for certain

(6)

19 To inhibit growth can be a risky thing (5)

20 Tease a companion as a jerk (6) 22 Returning by rail, he’s dishonest (4) 24 Uncle’s anti-aircraft missile? (3) 25 The lessee’s occupation (7) 26 A tracking aid that’s not much good at Ponders End (5)

27 Take off, possibly by air (5)

28 One packing up

pugilism? (5) 29 Be mistaken in the rank of a soldier, informally (7) 30 How a rider may be after a mishap at the water jump (5) 31 Obligations, note, are best sorted out (5)

DOWN

2 This Latin reader is a collector’s piece (6) 3 Such acid can make even an expert twitch! (6) 4 Inexperienced gunners at the Western Front (3)

5 Important in a relatively rising sense (5) 6 Artist said to have no commision (7) 7 It means more to the mathematician (4)

8 Several games may call for a masseur! (6)

12 Belief in Adam?

(5)

13 Cash in decent

supply (5) 14 Note the small

number (5) 15 Invest as

president (5) 16 He gets a try-out for Leicester at last (5)

18 The man who gets hungry? (5)

19 Sink a drink at the leisure centre (7) 21 We star as a

profligate (6) 22 Figure a hero is wandering in Pakistan (6)

23 Take and

swallow (6) 25 Excursions to curse heartily? (5)

26 Ties used in

building (4) 28 The place for tired flowers (3)