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
3
Cellphone Decline to accept case found rubbish in caravan? (6) (6, 4) 8
9 All-girl group keeping ten outside (8)
10 Type of plum used in sponge cake? (8) 11 Worker near border in part of N Ireland (6)
12 Val needs to be set free, if this? (8)
15 Hate naughty kid’s lie (7)
17 Duped when given shelter (5, 2)
19 Puppet show once a cause of consternation at the seaside? (8)
21 Resolve of French team, you say (6) 25 Marine stumbles on ship: almost a nasty accident? (4, 4) 26 Fellow taking Italian old boy to a Canadian province (8)
27 Unfashionable group’s beginning (6)
28 Denzel for president! (10)
DOWN
1 Area, for example, in Brazilian port, overlooking north (6)
Dairy product from animal with horns? (6) 2 3
Reveller twisted my remark about the Queen (10)
Destructive type gives a wave (7) 4 5
Break wind (not very loudly) for Apollo’s mother (4) 6 Husband has a drawer specially made for computer equipment (8) 7 Graeme exercises to get thin (6) 11 Range of tartan designs (5) 13 Photograph monster flower (10) 14 Ball caught, held by Scandinavian (5) 16 Left with extreme pain, one might… (8) 18 Supple performer James, we’ve heard, has got nasty cut (7) 20 Girl thanks mother when introduced to artist (6)
22 Halley objects as setter climbs into bed and wags tail (6) 23 Going through Canada, she definitely went at speed (6) 24 Satellite TV’s Kat and Alfie (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
House on wheels? (6, 4) 3 8 9 Turn away (6)
On the surface (8)
UK’s queen until 1901 (8) 10 11
County of Giant’s Causeway (6) 12 Subjugated (8) 15 Aversion (7) 17 Understood (5, 2) 19 Flatfish with a venomous tail (8) 21 Make up one’s mind (6) 25 Narrowly avoided collision (4, 4)
26 Canadian province and variety of maple (8) 27 (From the) get-go (6) 28 Northwestern US state (10)
DOWN
1 Part of the body (6) 2 - - - up, flatter (6) 3 Carouser (10) 4 Fuse kin (7)
5 Jared - - -, singer and Oscarwinning actor (4) 6 Metal tools (8) 7 Deficient in quantity (6) 11 Mountain system in South America (5) 13 Foxglove relative (10) 14 Salsa, eg (5) 16 Wither away (8) 18 Tumbler, eg (7) 20 - - - Ecclestone, socialite and heiress (6) 22 Sun orbiters (6) 23 Destroyed – one’s hopes, perhaps (6) 24 Over the - - -, rapturous (4)