CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Hut (5) 6 Film award (5) 9 Proof of

purchase (7) 10 Wash (5) 11 Creepy (5) 12 Seize without

authority (5) 13 Fertiliser (7) 15 Hat (3) 17 Is indebted

(4) 18 Amble (6) 19 Hackneyed (5) 20 Vipers (6) 22 Ripped (4) 24 Distress call

(3) 25 Furniture item

(7) 26 Pillow stuffing

(5) 27 Celebrations

(5) 28 Entire range

(5) 29 Found (7) 30 Number (5) 31 Principle (5) DOWN 2 Dent (6) 3 Muscular pains

(6) 4 Knowledge (3) 5 Minimum (5) 6 Work (7) 7 Pace (4) 8 Beast (6) 12 Employers (5) 13 Unconscious

states (5) 14 Repairs (5) 15 Punctuation

mark (5) 16 Factory (5) 18 Piece of meat

(5) 19 Treachery (7) 21 Give (6) 22 Angry speech

(6) 23 Continue (6) 25 Rocklike

lifeform (5) 26 Type of cabbage

(4) 28 Obtain (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Initially great deficit to smooth over (5) 6 Doubtful

strength? (5) 9 Officer apt to be taken in by a murderer (7) 10 You may go ahead and run out of it! (5) 11 Two nil? (5) 12 Quietly stand up and remove by force (5) 13 The noted powers landowners possess (7) 15 Looking embarrassed in a predicament (3) 17 Ah, a sailor and a captain! (4) 18 One of those falling, in effect? (6) 19 Bird needing a bit of chaperoning (5) 20 Hang around and look at it with hesitation (6) 22 Room for a holy man or sinner (4) 24 Lug out of the

arena (3) 25 Robbers having wild parties (7) 26 Royal maids,

possibly (5) 27 A Bohemian character to see and copy (5) 28 In disrobing, might he preen himself? (5) 29 A case of something legal to do (7) 30 Cold that makes a companion unwell (5) 31 She once bought a newspaper (5) DOWN 2 It’s wrong to

lash out somewhat tardily (6) 3 Six-footer once thought divine (6) 4 He can’t quite raise the mast (3) 5 They can brighten our nights (5) 6 Errand to a holy

place? (7) 7 Nice change for a soccer star (4) 8 Get tough (6) 12 You could call him Rock (5) 13 It could get the golfer off to a flier! (5) 14 The beast takes

a trip (5) 15 Bolt a plate

while it’s hot (5) 16 Youthful figures

(5) 18 She finishes a drink for a Scot (5) 19 Screwy, shall we

say? (7) 21 Stupid, endless whirl of fashion (6) 22 Truman, as

writer (6) 23 Unit of a U.S. soldier in a Spanish city (6) 25 Poles pay out for a bloomer! (5) 26 A factory unpleasant to go through (4) 28 Tearaway type?

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