CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS 1 Draconian (5) 6 Assumed name
(5)
9 Of the sense of
touch (7) 10 Journal (5) 11 Nigerian city (5) 12 Japanese
padded quilt (5) 13 Flatfish (7) 15 Transgression
(3)
17 Boy’s name (4) 18 Study (6) 19 Liquid, say (5) 20 Fruit (6) 22 Verge (4) 24 That woman (3) 25 Trailblazer (7) 26 Frighten (5) 27 Move furtively
(5)
28 Friendship (5) 29 Brief view (7) 30 Short stoppage
(5)
31 Kills (5)
DOWN
2 Brutish person
(6)
3 Stretch tight
(6)
4 Horses eat this
(3)
5 Swagger (5) 6 Permitted (7) 7 Having no fat
(4)
8 Handsome
youth (6) 12 Totally (5) 13 Emerge from
an egg (5) 14 Afterwards
(5)
15 Soft leather
(5)
16 Not ever (5) 18 Fairy type (5) 19 Small brownish
spot (7)
21 Rupture (6) 22 Tooth covering
(6)
23 People below
the nobility (6) 25 First-rate (5) 26 Droops (4) 28 Donkey (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 An incisive
note? (5) 6 Delivered with love, accepted by the immortals? (5)
9 The sound
barrier (7)
10 Is fine, but may grate to the ear (5)
11 An all-girl band!
(5)
12 See the temptation about sordid gain (5)
13 Toe corn treatment many a woman would love (7)
15 In which to dream the dreams of youth? (3) 17 The one moving out West may be Welsh (4) 18 The householder’s occupation (6) 19 Can it keep one’s chest a bit warm in bed? (5) 20 Huntsman’s
drink? (6) 22 Riddle solvable
in fits? (4) 24 Cry of the bushy-tailed male (3) 25 Artillery
assault? (7) 26 Old-fashioned, but found an attractive companion (5)
27 A drink some
way away (5) 28 Go furtively sabotaging kilns (5)
29 With point, figures in a deal (7)
30 Like every single person (5)
31 Tough, masterly companion, loved (5)
DOWN
2 School breaking
up? (6)
3 Motive for arson, perhaps, out East (6) 4 Of Irish butter?
(3)
5 An outlet to air one’s views freely (5) 6 Careful to take some guns when an adder’s loose (7)
7 Leer at a nicely rounded leg, perhaps? (4)
8 World Health Organisation member? (6) 12 Late start always meaning “Put the pressure on” (5)
13 Man in charge of the team bus? (5) 14 Race to bring home the baton (5) 15 A sweetie with style, that is (5)
16 Obviously apt
to be trying (5) 18 Possibly rated a tyre pattern (5)
19 Scolded for changing a date to the end of October (7) 21 In the London area, a place next to Charlton? (6) 22 She’s all set
to stray (6) 23 In which to talk about windows? (6)
25 Do first things
first (5)
26 The guy who gave the dud note? (4) 28 He’s a danger
to aircraft (3)