CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Recreation (5) 6 Might (5) 9 Previously (7) 10 Wash (5) 11 Turning machine

(5)

12 Danger (5) 13 Rots (7) 15 Perform (3) 17 Poems (4) 18 Part of a

diocese (6) 19 Flowering plant

(5)

20 Followed (6) 22 Insult (4)

24 Fish eggs (3) 25 Vie (7) 26 Moroccan

capital (5) 27 Ship’s room

(5)

28 Of the sun (5) 29 Friendly (7) 30 Pale (5) 31 Pasted (5)

DOWN

2 Drew (6) 3 Responds (6) 4 Brown (3) 5 Insects (5) 6 Aquatic bird

(7)

7 Spoken (4) 8 Morals (6) 12 Conceited (5) 13 Lobby (5) 14 Feeling (5) 15 Passageway

(5)

16 Fraction (5) 18 Fulcrum (5) 19 M East country

(7) 21 Wanderers

(6)

22 Leisurely walk

(6)

23 Anxiety (6) 25 American

“sweets” (5)

26 Cereal crop (4) 28 Droop (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Such letters constitute mail, naturally (5) 6 Dress the wounds of a dog? (5)

9 When a spider gets entangled, it’s hopeless! (7)

10 Salute with tears in one’s eyes? (5) 11 Endless calls?

(5)

12 Money for food

(5)

13 Quarrelled over a terrible umpiring decision (4,3) 15 Fiendish fate?

(3)

17 The responsibility isn’t on you (4)

18 Smooth, for example, in a lot of rough treatment (6)

19 Sadness at Stamford Bridge? (5) 20 Toy with one’s

food? (6)

22 Live on a ship (the Queen Elizabeth?) (4)

24 Caught in some shady deal (3) 25 About to go to a place for meeting a government department (7) 26 The tag can be

all wrong (5) 27 Dishonest talk about a point (5)

28 One possible icon involved in an architectural order (5)

29 A movie we

back (7)

30 A piano in a

thousand (5) 31 A vital man, when up to this, is full of tension (5)

DOWN

2 Get tough (6) 3 Due to certain criteria, is out of business (6)

4 It can catch creatures, but not by the gross (3) 5 Wear ostentatiously, just for fun (5) 6 Plagiarists fit only to mash praties (7) 7 Redhead to help out in getting dry (4) 8 Strong, firm little fellow (6)

12 Germ the French get, being of sound military significance (5)

13 Not back for the tough outer casing (5) 14 Transparent lid covering a portion of duck (5)

15 Scoffed in threatening fashion (5) 16 Put the light out and have a party with Sue, perhaps (5) 18 Woman twice left out, and that’s straight! (5)

19 Cried and suffered when interrupted by tea, unsuitably (7)

21 Bacon’s right

for Jane (6) 22 Buzz off and get

one free (6) 23 Looking up,

lying (6) 25 Regular payments in the current series (5)

26 Green fabric?

(4)

28 Trouble getting half a firkin! (3)