CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Card game (5) 6 Acclaim (5) 9 Grazing land

(7)

10 Strange (5) 11 Corner (5) 12 Inclination (5) 13 Right (7) 15 Jelly-like

substance (3) 17 Female sheep

(4)

18 Shade of red

(6)

19 Facial hair (5) 20 Accumulate (6) 22 Burden (4) 24 Rodent (3) 25 Saliva (7) 26 Roofing tile (5) 27 Contradict (5) 28 Log (5)

29 Hand tool (7) 30 Biting insects

(5)

31 Flower (5)

DOWN

2 Empty (6) 3 Javelins (6) 4 Brown (3) 5 Walking pole

(5)

6 Permitted (7) 7 Period before

Easter (4) 8 Depends (6) 12 Rock fragments

(5)

13 Tree (5) 14 Respond (5) 15 Titan (5)

16 Hire contract

(5)

18 Pancake (5) 19 Menservants

(7)

21 Cave (6) 22 Canadian

capital (6) 23 Painful

afflictions (6)

25 Condition (5) 26 Sieve (4) 28 Rotter (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 There’s a weight problem about us being in opera (5)

6 Does it give one a taste for girls? (5) 9 Marital mayhem in the military manner (7) 10 Teach to draw?

(5)

11 Hang around looking black? (5)

12 Something bad to fall into (5)

13 After a blow, he needs to heal anew

(7)

15 The little woman’s little man (3)

17 But getting ahead, eventually finished (4) 18 Cost of keeping in shape? (6) 19 A girl to see

and copy (5) 20 Free, due to the magistrate’s change of heart? (6)

22 All you can take if getting change for £50 (4) 24 Caught and

held (3) 25 Steps taken to help clothe Aussies?

(7) 26 It’s in the upper third of the UK (5) 27 Commander in

chief? (5) 28 Acquire the money you deserve (5) 29 One goes on

foot (7)

30 By holding a noted race, makes a name (5)

31 New ideas one hears in the theatre (5)

DOWN

2 Flier whose mother may be in Iran (6) 3 This is confused with my workplace (6)

4 Beat just by a

shade? (3) 5 Something hard to sharpen knives with! (5)

6 Being cast in a new production can be devilish! (7)

7 Perform a song at the piano (4)

8 Rush of business?

(6)

12 As a rhymester, he’s a menace! (5)

13 Hooligan on the golf course? (5)

14 Appeal for a

quiet hint (5) 15 Most of the luck

I had is very understandable (5) 16 Cathedral where Wesley took in novices? (5)

18 Form part

(5)

19 Much too tight

(7)

21 Plunder a grave, perhaps (6)

22 Those spent in a great day amid the trees? (6)

23 Looked to shelter a revolutionary (6)

25 Stays in bars

(5)

26 It’s a job to shoot round a bend! (4) 28 The field of simple arithmetic

(3)