COVER Puzzle special
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 Man stumbled – ouch! (6)
5 Maybe husband featured in a variety of
papers (7)
9 Singers in pub – Italian ones (9)
10 Legendary tennis champ makes real
comeback, securing victory (5)
11 Smooth Mr Spielberg’s no saint (4)
12 I go round large old dwelling (5)
13 French cheese that is second to British (4)
16 Bird that makes cat stop sleeping, say? (9)
18 Still in time to welcome queen (5)
19 A cat’s cries said to raise a smile? (5)
21 Man buries wrecked transport at sea (9)
23 Partially strengthened at that time (4)
24 Cooked pears, more than what’s needed (5) 26 Move quickly and hide (4)
29 Notorious director shortly to ask for a ride (5) 30 Mediocre trader hit out (5-4)
31 Churchill, for example, getting victories at
great speed (7)
32 Ms Jackson has good finale in Los Angeles (6)
DOWN
2 Mr Hemingway sounds serious… (7)
3 … And others rise for the dead (4)
4 Maybe a flute to successfully woo, for example, young woman (9) 5 Among cheapest offers is a kind of pasta sauce (5)
6 Part of a list of names read out loud (4) 7 Unfavourable publicity given to poetry (7)
8 Dramatic event for shoppers? (6, 7) 9 After pause, loud host was prepared for morning radio programme (9, 4)
14 Fifty-nine assorted tablecloths? (5)
15 Man goes round the Italian city (5)
17 Getting on boat maybe makes them
half mad (9)
20 You finally put in order that’s still to be
consumed (7)
22 I dash into road in the country (7)
25 Installed Russian statesman (5)
27 Try a small amount of vodka? (4)
28 Doing nothing in mid-Lent (4)
Quick clues
ACROSS
1 University don (6)
5 - - - Love, John Denver and Plácido
Domingo duet (7)
9 Male singers (9)
10 Seaweed used in popular Welsh
dish (5)
11 All the more, yet (4)
12 Icy abode (5)
13 Creamy cheese (4)
16 Seabird (9)
18 Dormant (5)
19 Entertain (5)
21 Under the sea (9)
23 After that (4)
24 Auxiliary (5)
26 Pour (down) (4)
29 2005 romcom with Will Smith and
Eva Mendes (5)
30 Inferior (5-4)
31 Robert - - -, TV scientist and life
peer (7)
32 - - - Jackson, actress and former
politician (6)
DOWN
2 Sincere
(7)
3 Tardy (4)
4 Vessel for claret (9) 5 Basil-based sauce (5) 6 Character in a play (4) 7 Antagonistic, hostile (7) 8 Town-centre performance (6, 7) 9 Morning broadcast (9, 4)
14 Spun fibres of flax (5) 15 City in northern
Italy (5)
17 Boarding (9)
20 (Of food) leftover (7) 22 Eire (7)
25 Vladimir - - -,
president of Russia (5) 27 Lead pellets (4)
28 Eric - - -, Python (4)