PRIZE CROSSWORD
For this puzzle we’ve provided two sets of clues, each giving the same answers. One set of clues is cryptic, one set is quick. It’s a good way to hone your skills, because it gives you two ways to crack the crossword! Two winners will be chosen randomly from all entries (cryptic and quick clues). So whichever set of clues you follow you have an equal chance of winning!
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Two males wearing formal clothes for important meeting (6) 4 Officer has fresh gear dispatched round about (8) 8 Where US citizen is likely to be very upset (2, 1, 5) 9 Hounds released to get actress Kate, maybe? (6) 10 Support for piano (4) 11 Card game associated with Job (8) 14 Walker identified a kind of rose (7) 16 Gather together for prayer (7) 18 Sausage the Spanish stuffed in a variety of cabbage (7) 20 Bird making big noise next to box (7) 22 One’s dying to be a little brat (8) 24 Book by Thomas East (4) 26 Channel, choppy after onset of tempest (6) 27 Suggesting mischief maker’s telling fibs (8) 28 The saint shuffles, lacking in confidence (8) 29 Clever little creature chased by daughter (6)
DOWN
1 Incite trouble in prison (4) 2 Be a smiler? Wrong, if this (9) 3 Public transport a penny for this poor fellow? (5) 4 Tired secret agent secures shelter (6) 5 Architect’s grand car (5) 6 In unorthodox séance, bishop noticed presence? The opposite (7) 7 Elton’s twin goes to Hollywood (10) 12 Squadron having bad time getting up (5) 13 Ill-tempered person’s to go over small piece of land (10) 15 Fellow, one turning up at church (5) 17 Dignitary giving foreign lady room, right? (4, 5) 19 I savour nuts of different kinds (7) 21 Painter in part is tasteful (6) 23 Quote out loud: it makes sense (5) 24 Thanks fathers for Spanish food (5) 25 Section of stage door is very old (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Peak (6) 4 John - - -, veteran journalist and reporter on The One Show (8) 8 Distressed, frantic (2, 1, 5) 9 Rock - - -, Fifties and Sixties film star (6) 10 Buttress (4) 11 Calm endurance (8) 14 Incessant talker (7) 16 Accumulate (7) 18 Dyed and seasoned English sausage (7) 20 Captain Jack - - -, Johnny Depp’s buccaneer (7) 22 Rascal (8) 24 Weighty book (4) 26 Farmyard feedbox (6) 27 Expressing (views) indirectly (8) 28 Wavering (8) 29 Astute (6)
DOWN
1 Rouse, awaken (4) 2 Dejected (9) 3 Vagrant (5) 4 The Legend of - - - Hollow, novella by Washington Irving (6) 5 Antoni - - -, designer of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família (5) 6 - - - makes the heart grow fonder, saying (7) 7 Hollywood’s nickname (10) 12 Cavalry unit (5) 13 Peevish individual (10) 15 Eldest son of Cain (5) 17 Local dignitary (4, 5) 19 Assorted (7) 21 The - - -, 2011 Oscar-winning silent film with James Cromwell (6) 23 Vision (5) 24 Appetisers in Spanish cuisine (5) 25 Advanced in years (4)