CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Reject (5) 6 Drops (5) 9 British city (7) 10 Tale (5) 11 Praises (5) 12 Stomach (5) 13 Commanded
(7)
15 Agent (3) 17 Second-hand
(4)
18 Failure (6) 19 Stringed instruments (5)
20 Scamp (6) 22 Hoofed
mammal (4) 24 Previous day
(3)
25 Scolds (7) 26 Navigation aid
(5)
27 Naive (5) 28 Once more
(5)
29 Blend (7) 30 Keepsake (5) 31 Carrying salvers
(5)
DOWN
2 Provides (6) 3 Tallied (6) 4 Layer (3) 5 Inquired (5) 6 Foolish actions
(7)
7 Not at home
(4)
8 Titled women
(6) 12 Gemstone
(5)
13 Improper (5) 14 Thick (5) 15 Metal fastener
(5)
16 Fruit (5) 18 Postpone (5) 19 Terse (7) 21 Opposed (6) 22 Peril (6) 23 Creepily (6) 25 Lures (5) 26 Half (4) 28 Craft (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 Impertinence when out of bread? (5)
6 It’s fun being a
rogue! (5) 9 Unimportant figure in legal proceedings (7)
10 Transport by motor and railway (5) 11 Trick a pet companion (5)
12 Like the way
of stars (5) 13 Told within the
family (7) 15 Succeed in hitting a reduced target (3)
17 First fellow to have a mare (4)
18 She gets the wrong angle on an article (6)
19 Living creature
(5)
20 See a complaint as something tasteful (6) 22 Weary of a strange rite (4)
24 Athenian bird?
(3) 25 Intermediary, and a little bent, outwardly! (7)
26 Val takes it to be essential (5)
27 Up in the air, slip out of the way (5)
28 Girl from Tangier
(5)
29 It provides for the rest of the audience (7)
30 Is cruel to a
wild beast (5) 31 End of the ad,
perhaps (5)
DOWN
2 Raised by the chap at the back (6)
3 Star me as a
runner (6)
4 As an essay, a pointless entry (3)
5 Do without an empty space (5) 6 Discharging certain material (7)
7 Perform a dramatic piece musically (4)
8 She conceals her heartache in different ways (6)
12 Man behind me in a race (5)
13 Landed property managed by some charity (5)
14 Language resembling Latvian in parts? (5) 15 Lamp spirit?
(5)
16 Accepted with thanks by a boy (5) 18 Flying station in London? (5)
19 In any case, Sid’s in the Brentford team (7)
21 Interrupt the French with an exclamation (6)
22 Pain due to a double portion of porridge (6) 23 Is in repose, but you won’t agree! (6) 25 Hospital traditionally for the hereditarily honoured? (5)
26 Garment from the glove stall (4) 28 Clandestine
union? (3)