CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Precipitous

(5) 6 River-mouth

(5)

9 Answered

(7) 10 Apportion (5) 11 Quoted (5) 12 Scope (5) 13 Retribution

(7)

15 Summit (3) 17 Dry (4) 18 Safe (6) 19 Quiet (5) 20 Courteous (6) 22 In this place

(4)

24 Spring (3) 25 Bully (7) 26 Smears (5) 27 Characteristic

(5)

28 Viper (5) 29 Salad plant

(7) 30 Enquired (5) 31 Strayed (5)

DOWN

2 Cashier (6) 3 Wore away (6) 4 Favourite (3) 5 Mud (5)

6 Unit of sound

(7)

7 Revise (4) 8 Quake (6) 12 Gemstone (5) 13 Coarse files

(5)

14 Country house

(5)

15 Melodies (5) 16 Apostle (5) 18 Insults (5) 19 Pompous (7) 21 Musical dramas

(6)

22 Impede (6) 23 Esteem (6) 25 Beast (5)

26 Bodily fluid (4) 28 Expert (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Something worth having when on TV? (5)

6 My going round the ring with a horse and a cat (5)

9 Don’t you

believe it! (7) 10 Small farm in credit frequently (5)

11 The part with a shelter at each end (5)

12 My thoughts ought to be absent from these stories (5)

13 They’re better played in, than with (7)

15 The odd instrumental part (3) 17 Prepare, on paper, for the turn of the tide (4)

18 Make an article in a Mediterranean island (6) 19 Covers secret

lives? (5)

20 To the editor, both may have growing possibilities (6)

22 A smoke on

the tube? (4) 24 She’s relatively diminutive

(3)

25 Scratches a beard’s possibly caused? (7) 26 Plunges into

low haunts (5) 27 No rural palindrome (5)

28 Pertness can be piquant (5)

29 A doll we broke within the rules (7)

30 To the French, an American soldier is active (5)

31 City water

supplies (5)

DOWN

2 Open the

drapes (6) 3 Cause! (6) 4 Perhaps a great little flier (3) 5 Remains with the supporters (5)

6 They have their day

(for meetings?) (7)

7 Persons with circuitous ways? (4)

8 Escape the need to keep running to and fro? (3,3) 12 Sounded catty

(5)

13 The spirit moves them to open a shop (5)

14 Is inclined to falsify a list for a short time (5)

15 Frenzied attack outside the Boar’s Head (5) 16 A historic race,

me boy! (5) 18 Coshes the kids round the corner (5)

19 He, Clive, crashed the car! (7)

21 In fancy lingo, one is helping with the running (6)

22 What soldiers may do for a padre, possibly (6)

23 In which to write a soft, terribly nice love letter? (6)

25 Pea soup got him stirred up! (5)

26 Face a couple

(4)

28 Not all housewives can do so (3)