CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Small fish (5) 6 Blood-sucking

insect (5) 9 Solvent (7) 10 Hidden store

(5)

11 Stringed

instrument (5) 12 Boxing matches

(5)

13 Perfumed (7) 15 Agent (3) 17 Domestic fowl

(4) 18 Introspective (6) 19 Currency unit

(5)

20 Fairy king (6) 22 Unaccompanied

(4)

24 Pitch (3) 25 Greedy person

(7)

26 Acclaim (5) 27 Dairy product

(5) 28 Derogatory (5) 29 Argument (7) 30 Slumber (5) 31 Coin (5)

DOWN

2 Strut (6) 3 European

capital (6) 4 Definite article

(3)

5 Hood (5) 6 Reading (7) 7 Minerals (4) 8 Seasoned (6) 12 Started (5) 13 Fire (5)

14 Go in (5) 15 Automaton (5) 16 Electricity

support (5) 18 Stomach (5) 19 Pickled herring

fillet (7)

21 Keg (6) 22 Position (6) 23 English city (6) 25 Avarice (5) 26 Stare open-mouthed (4)

28 Drink daintily (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Naval units?

(5)

6 Right in position for good healthy fun (5)

9 Woman of

Georgia (7) 10 You can bet it meant capital punishment! (5)

11 A luxurious opening for “8 Down”, we hear (5) 12 He brings a bit of fire to “New Lab.” (5)

13 Only in the bay does one find rubbish (7) 15 Advice helpful in the extreme? (3)

17 The immortal

love racket (4) 18 It came from outer space and tore ’em to shreds! (6) 19 Older variety

of berry (5) 20 Plod along with a letter to Barnaby (6) 22 No one-day

building job (4) 24 Jump quietly,

with a cry (3) 25 Insured a customer, looking embarrassed (7) 26 Is aware of money going in fees (5) 27 Stinking, due to a fatheaded change of diet (5)

28 Chap I had to make nervous (5)

29 Joseph’s a senior citizen, just an ordinary bloke (3,4) 30 A mug’s

surname? (5) 31 Street woman in Perry Mason stories (5)

DOWN

2 It’s good to band together again (3,3) 3 Hire, lets

assume (4,2) 4 She points

out an about

turn (3) 5 Depression in

the field? (5) 6 The batsman

who’s “out”? (7) 7 Piano tune with cymbals, say! (4)

8 It’s in Rio, we’re told, by David (6) 12 She’s beautiful, but can sound alarming (5) 13 Wherein a couple have nothing but a phone (5) 14 Figure a sheep

is sozzled! (3,2) 15 Singer whose heart is in English opera (5)

16 Looked curiously into the source of pride (5) 18 The Spanish join me in an Aegean island (5) 19 Encouraged by what can be done with a noted horse (5,2)

21 One is ratty when the room’s in a bad state (6) 22 Instructions on record for pie-making (6) 23 Servant possibly taking the meal in (6)

25 Local cul-de-sac

(5)

26 The state many Pacific islands are in (4)

28 It means very little in Portadown (3)