CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Emit light (5) 6 Educate (5) 9 Clumsy (7) 10 Shoot from

cover (5) 11 Sea duck (5) 12 Baa (5) 13 Melodious (7) 15 Chest bone (3) 17 Epochs (4) 18 Give (6) 19 Unadorned (5) 20 Use (6) 22 Provocative

remark (4) 24 Plaything (3) 25 Exhaust or tire

(4,3) 26 Sucrose (5) 27 Competitor

(5) 28 Purchaser (5) 29 Splinter group

(7)

30 Cut off (5) 31 Hatred (5)

DOWN

2 Integrity (6) 3 Italian city (6) 4 Female sheep

(3)

5 Expand (5) 6 Crime against

the state (7) 7 Revise (4) 8 Believe (6) 12 Hector (5) 13 Belief (5) 14 Diaper (5) 15 Proportion (5) 16 Brimless cap

(5)

18 Frogman (5) 19 Well-liked (7) 21 Movable (6) 22 Terrain (6) 23 Writing desk

(6)

25 Ballroom dance

(5)

26 Strongbox (4) 28 Expression of disapproval (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Jam, of course, can behave like glue (5)

6 Said to be one of those around the nave (5)

9 A high-flown sort of letter? (3,4) 10 Landowner with his own little place at the end of the road (5)

11 Country areas where rooms can be had (5)

12 Is vegetable, but there may be fur on it (5)

13 A fault that makes me tired (7)

15 Some stewed apples, soft to eat (3)

17 A dash for the

river (4)

18 Sail erratically around the kingdom with a dog (6) 19 Jump over, out of the way (5)

20 Put down in one’s very best writing? (6) 22 Fat girl finishing breakfast, possibly with pudding (4) 24 Haymaker’s

cry? (3) 25 Jack’s lofty situation, at work? (7) 26 Not exactly a

dirty song (5) 27 After a job’s finished, the burden of payment? (5) 28 There’s hard work for him, Victor, in the navy (5) 29 Spout about medical chaos? (7)

30 Has it handlebar

horns? (5) 31 Was inclined to have let out a piece of land (5)

DOWN

2 A problem for

Easter? (6) 3 Road hauliers’ favourite opera? (6)

4 Hide that child!

(3) 5 Quick way to reverse vehicles (5)

6 It’s like sorting

mail, sir (7) 7 Allotment

scheme? (4) 8 Where, near Luxor, some snakes went on the newly built Ark? (6) 12 Sphere, yes; but it’s often rectangular (5)

13 Where a milkmaid could get a bit tired during the day (5)

14 Eat a lot around the middle of the month (5)

15 Is running a hostel such a job? (3-2) 16 Where skiers possibly step out of line? (5) 18 Witty yet tasteful remark about an officer (5)

19 Fighting weight of H.M.S. Belfast? (7) 21 Don’t be content with a homely meal! (3,3)

22 An opening word from Ali Baba (6)

23 One playing two

legs? (6) 25 Walk stiffly, rather like a stork (5)

26 Well dressed but useless egghead (4) 28 To just fail to link up means nothing (3)