CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Young dog (5) 6 Alcoholic drink
(5)
9 Dictionary (7) 10 Regions (5) 11 Regal (5) 12 Derision (5) 13 Exhaustion
(7)
15 Congeal (3) 17 Dry (4) 18 Globe (6) 19 Failing, defect
(5)
20 Minor
earthquake (6) 22 Scorch (4) 24 Possesses (3) 25 Confuses (7) 26 Cut of beef
(5)
27 Fact (5) 28 Student (5) 29 Bullfighter (7) 30 Fiend (5) 31 Television,
informally (5)
DOWN 2 Pandemonium
(6)
3 Peaceful, mild
(6)
4 Affirmative (3) 5 Female relative
(5)
6 Accepting
bribes (7)
7 Privy to (2,2) 8 Pencil rubber
(6)
12 Sucrose (5) 13 Trust (5) 14 Multiplied by
(5)
15 Hereditary units
(5)
16 Looks at lasciviously (5)
18 Smooth and
shiny (5)
19 Male servant
(7)
21 Plunder (6) 22 Surgical stitch
(6)
23 Antenna (6) 25 Trite (5) 26 Japanese
wrestling (4) 28 Container (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 It’s customary to have a little after finishing lunch (5)
6 A knotty snag
(5)
9 Hire a map-maker? (7)
10 Like a vagabond boy on the street (5) 11 Blue blooded
boys (5) 12 Some gangster’s girl? (5)
13 Raised a hand to an officer (7)
15 The place for tired flowers? (3)
17 Extra cross
(4)
18 In a dream, perhaps,
I love (6) 19 Doesn’t continue to change posts (5)
20 Tough about money?
Not likely! (6) 22 Shoot up, sounding angry (4)
24 I again show
anger! (3) 25 Clearly there’s a port authority in outer Londonderry (7) 26 Climb on a
fish’s back? (5) 27 Oil-rich, maybe, he hikes around (5) 28 Operatives who make hissing noises when out of food (5) 29 One can be clear about it being a performance (7) 30 Indefatigable
judge? (5)
31 A riotous stay out East with a poet (5)
DOWN
2 I’ve never seen any such body (6) 3 Fabulous flier who became overheated (6) 4 Your worthy half
(3)
5 Ready to fight rather than leg it (5)
6 Her lads have become messengers (7)
7 Novel material
for a mask (4) 8 The huntsman’s
drink? (6)
12 Full of pith, but not the vegetable kind (5)
13 Old soldier who wrecked a ship (5) 14 Most recluses manage to get money (5) 15 Beastly twin
boy? (5) 16 Costly to the very end, darling (5) 18 New Yorkers live in the Big one (5)
19 One only relatively idle? (7)
21 Bowman bent on being on radio? (6)
22 It’s easy to give a wry smile about poor start (6)
23 He lived near
Victoria (6) 25 Welsh party maybe, but it’s of Scottish pattern (5) 26 Your majesty’s
horse? (4) 28 Suppose Sally’s lost fifty quid (3)