CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Spanish snacks
(5)
6 Knowing smile
(5)
9 Blissful state
(7)
10 Glossy fabric (5) 11 Hibernian (5) 12 Residue or
remains (5) 13 Scolds harshly
(7)
15 Dowel (3) 17 Object of
worship (4) 18 Venerate (6) 19 Dog breed (5) 20 Swiss wooden
hut (6)
22 Visage (4) 24 Farmyard bird
(3)
25 Type of cloud
(7)
26 Legendary king
(5)
27 Timorous (5) 28 Locates (5) 29 More than a
few (7) 30 Accumulate (5) 31 Belief (5)
DOWN
2 Subsided (6) 3 Brutish person
(6) 4 Transgression
(3)
5 Asserts (5) 6 Sly laugh (7) 7 Planet (4) 8 Rota (6) 12 Warehouse (5) 13 Female dog
(5)
14 Person from
Rome (5)
15 Of the foot (5) 16 DNA units (5) 18 Picture puzzle
(5)
19 Apart from (7) 21 Balloon gas
(6) 22 Unsuccessful,
pointless (6) 23 Hug (6) 25 Provide food
(5)
26 Fail to hit (4) 28 Excess flesh
(3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Fish traps,
possibly (5) 6 Light competition? (5)
9 For a start, Gene has a little sister (7) 10 Fresh as paint, perhaps (5)
11 Pity it’s not a genuine note (5)
12 Stick a step
together (5) 13 Fighting man with a sore lid (7)
15 Will she do
time? (3)
17 I would take some heart from this suggestion (4) 18 People who, having turned in, dash out! (6)
19 She’s soft on an aristocrat (5)
20 He has a pair
of jacks (6) 22 An appointment
to eat? (4) 24 Little half coughs significant in the navy (3) 25 In a way, nothing for me to make an exhibition about (7) 26 Dismiss the remainder (5)
27 Easy to see with no mountains in the way (5) 28 Breathy line in chat, perhaps (5) 29 Semi-nude girl,
say (7)
30 He makes things hot for people (5) 31 Box with a cool head, at speed (5)
DOWN
2 Time possibly ripe to do wrong (6) 3 A businesslike programme (6)
4 A listening
figure (3)
5 A growing boy
in a car (5) 6 Malt, sir, can give you wind (7)
7 Arthur, when he won Wimbledon (4)
8 They’re carved or engraved in small parts (6)
12 He has his favourite period piece (5)
13 Like a sense
of form? (5) 14 Looks like lechers having no companion (5)
15 She had to turn
up when holding an “at home” (5)
16 Through sounding baffled or confounded (5) 18 Look weary as you fall out, having started off (5)
19 Matey role for which Nero had no love (7) 21 Her mother turned up with Charles Lamb (6)
22 One who contradicts a measure? (6) 23 Ginger, pet?
(6)
25 A narrow beam,
perhaps? (5) 26 A team on
edge? (4) 28 Part of a regular
curve (3)