CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Hotel patron
(5)
6 Gemstone (5) 9 Metallic
element (7) 10 Great honour and prestige (5)
11 Quick (5) 12 Continental
quilt (5) 13 Unnecessary
fuss (7) 15 Vehicle (3) 17 First man (4) 18 Public outburst
(6)
19 Art (5) 20 Topics (6) 22 Small rodents
(4)
24 Knight’s title
(3)
25 Of current
affairs (7) 26 Thighbone (5) 27 Cinder (5) 28 Pub game (5) 29 Boast (4,3) 30 Heavenly
messenger (5) 31 By or in itself
(3,2)
DOWN
2 Remove cargo
from (6) 3 Shriek, shrill
cry (6)
4 River (3) 5 Happen (5) 6 Melodious (7) 7 Leave out (4) 8 Seem (6) 12 Furniture items
(5)
13 Gasps (5) 14 Stratum (5) 15 Comedian (5) 16 Ward off (5) 18 Room’s lower
surface (5)
19 More than a
few (7)
21 Hired assassin
(3,3) 22 Something
illusory (6) 23 Prickly plant
(6) 25 Elephant’s long
teeth (5) 26 Outdoor event
(4)
28 Slope
downwards (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 One thinks there’s wet weather at Birkenhead (5)
6 In front by a winning distance (5) 9 Honest, since really friendless (7)
10 The all-round
holder (5) 11 Being the best, is typically topping (5) 12 Brass vessel, Anglo Saxon (5)
13 It’s wrong for me to be away when the game’s stopped (4,3)
15 Piece of sycamore used in machinery (3)
17 Speech test or examination (4)
18 An ancient Roman name I dish out (6) 19 Female member of a string quartet (5) 20 Degrees for
acting? (6) 22 As drunk, in Japan, for one’s own good? (4)
24 You heard! (3) 25 Strong places in which to fling a fellow (7) 26 For instance, one can serve as a pointer (5)
27 In a raincoat, Joe looks wonderful (5) 28 Something to read in church? (5)
29 Chose to avoid starting school? (7)
30 Speak for the
nation (5) 31 Fading and dingy, perhaps (5) DOWN
2 About two to
mend (6)
3 How can she be
Lois? (6)
4 In raising money
for nothing (3) 5 He may venture to look around (5)
6 Poetic place with plenty of sheltered shopping? (7) 7 Property of Mrs
Macpherson (4) 8 Mount an art product for an artist (6) 12 Vessel going to an island city (5)
13 Novel character, soft-hearted, surrounded by broken toys (5)
14 Parrot many a
bird cry (5) 15 Inland
navigation (5) 16 Measures out so as to set ’em up (5) 18 Fold in a petal,
possibly (5) 19 The motorist’s means of expression? (7) 21 One intent on occupying a place? (6) 22 Still a way to
go! (6) 23 Enthusiastic about being quick to get ahead (4,2) 25 See a measure as a sure thing (5)
26 Fast getting tied
in a knot! (4) 28 Possibly rocky piece of furniture (3)