CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Rabbit’s cage
(5)
6 On the ocean
(2,3) 9 Repulsive (7) 10 Sag (5) 11 Opposite of
heads (5) 12 Previous (5) 13 Inanely foolish
(7)
15 Ventilate (3) 17 Unfortunately
(4)
18 Convince,
guarantee (6) 19 Number (5) 20 Hand tool (6) 22 Flank (4)
24 Still (3)
25 Stroll (7) 26 Backless shoes
(5)
27 Regal (5) 28 Small fish (5) 29 Garment (4,3) 30 Scornful
expression (5) 31 Sorts, kinds
(5)
DOWN
2 Imaginary,
illusory (6) 3 Group of
singers (6) 4 Pelvis (3) 5 Dreads (5) 6 Postmortem examination (7)
7 A tyrant (4) 8 Chocolate finger
cake (6) 12 Student (5) 13 Ornamented,
decorative (5) 14 Unspoken
(5)
15 Inspection of
accounts (5) 16 Allude (5)
18 Book of maps
(5)
19 Temporal (7) 21 Diamorphine
(6)
22 Smart,
fashionable (6) 23 Ten years (6) 25 Searches (5) 26 Pal (4) 28 Chronic
drunkard (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Might it have bought you an animal outright? (5)
6 A lot of workers go to new positions (5) 9 Lovers can share it with cream on (7) 10 It’s habitual for us to get older (5)
11 It has its peers
(5)
12 Horse with a saintly head? (5)
13 Goes over the
faults (7)
15 The amount can upset us a lot (3)
17 Only parts of
areas? (4) 18 Norway lobsters
in Italy? (6) 19 A girl to cling?
(5)
20 Cricketer who’ll start with a half of beer (6)
22 In Ireland, a river used by southerners (4)
24 A positive
gesture (3) 25 Of London or Manchester, the bigger (7) 26 Smart guys with useless ways (5)
27 A little dash can be a bit amusing (5) 28 Can be a goat
(5)
29 Apart from the north, a noble source of cedar? (7) 30 Cedric Hildebrand’s youngster (5) 31 Don’t argue -- change gear, sweetheart! (5)
DOWN
2 List a resort as
irregular (6) 3 Rages wildly about a U-turn? (6) 4 Is it as low as you can get? (3)
5 Tactful omissions by a straw weaver? (5) 6 High-pitched sound from creches (7) 7 What the editor has to pay? (4) 8 Extremely short of space (4,2)
12 Keep on the
road! (5)
13 A true friend of the classics (5) 14 Honoured the troop leader during a meal (5)
15 Quick return of trams (5) 16 A sociable
drink? (5) 18 Reminders of how one was stupidly crass? (5)
19 Read that there were keys to a new purse (7) 21 Surprisingly, perhaps, it may be French (6) 22 Mitigating something bad in a turbulent age (6)
23 The maudlin
Ms Dean? (6) 25 Reach the broken gate where I’ve left it (3,2)
26 A brilliant
rebuttal (4) 28 You wouldn’t want one to have a crush on you (3)