CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Sphere (5) 6 Thaws (5) 9 Card game

(3,4)

10 Indian dish (5) 11 Approaches

(5)

12 Lustre (5) 13 Plant (7) 15 Joke (3) 17 Boy’s name

(4) 18 Character (6) 19 Trite (5) 20 Newspaper

boss (6) 22 Slender (4) 24 Managed (3) 25 Debilitates (7) 26 Fear (5) 27 Work dough

(5) 28 Lukewarm (5) 29 Tutor (7) 30 Bury (5) 31 Pallid (5)

DOWN

2 Wealthy (6) 3 Lowest part (6) 4 Biblical priest

(3)

5 US city (5) 6 Inorganic matter

(7)

7 Paradise (4) 8 Deposit on the

teeth (6) 12 Musical

instrument (5) 13 Maker of bread

(5)

14 Street urchin

(5)

15 Cunning (5) 16 Microbes (5) 18 Nude (5) 19 Lodger (7) 21 Become

apparent (4,2) 22 Winter

sportsmen (6) 23 Provoke (6) 25 Spectate (5) 26 Fruit (4) 28 Beverage (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Discomfit seaman Wood (5)

6 Not even

stylishly! (5) 9 It’s polite to include nothing in rudely brief style (7)

10 To the likes of Billy Bunter, it was an imposition! (5) 11 Obligations best dealt with by the deputy-head (5)

12 Writings that flow like rivers? (5)

13 Uncle’s place (selling music?) (3,4) 15 Favourite trumpet piece (3)

17 He has both love and money in poor accommodation (4)

18 Pious emperor and dramatist (6)

19 The cold leg, perhaps,

I had (5) 20 Easter

problem? (6) 22 She stutters

like Mimi (4) 24 Like some schooldays of the past (3) 25 Crafty enough to make Ian an MP? (7) 26 Was fishy? (5) 27 Violinist’s big

sister? (5)

28 Is said to be permissive with Latvians (5) 29 It’s manoeuvred best in a French port (7) 30 Such prosperous days, my pal made possible (5)

31 You can have a “jump” one, of course (5)

DOWN

2 Kind of curtain chewed up by a panda? (6) 3 Northern dialect most Scots use (6) 4 How some like it, weather-wise (3) 5 Look exhausted as you fall out of the ring! (5)

6 The game of sorting odd mail (3,4)

7 They can help make a muddy estuary a bit colourful! (4) 8 Untidy little

pigs! (6) 12 Ability to develop a certain amount of prowess (5) 13 A graphic

picture (5) 14 Ask earnestly for piano wire (5)

15 French soccer star, not really small (5)

16 It stimulates high speed, I see (5) 18 Did terrible toil, on the quiet, get him his wings? (5)

19 Land of the man in grey, perhaps (7) 21 Name an unusually live artist (6)

22 It’s best if returning home (6)

23 One doing a more appropriate job? (6)

25 It’s clear the party leader had been lying (5)

26 Severely criticise the chap round the corner (4) 28 Harlesden

man? (3)