CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Model (5) 6 About (5) 9 Minor deity (7) 10 Leave quickly (5) 11 Obstruct (5) 12 Aquatic bird (5) 13 Breakfast foods (7) 15 Digit (3) 17 Pay attention to (4) 18 Individual (6) 19 Postpone (5) 20 Calms down (6) 22 Small drink (4) 24 Place (3) 25 Devoutly (7) 26 Gemstone (5) 27 Spectre (5) 28 Performer (5) 29 Write (7) 30 Slumber (5) 31 Den (5)
DOWN
2 Edict (6) 3 Loved (6) 4 Allow (3) 5 Layers (5) 6 Shoe-mender (7) 7 Lazy (4) 8 Migratory bird (6) 12 Adhesives (5) 13 Inexpensive (5) 14 Took an exam again (5) 15 Russian rulers (5) 16 Foe (5) 18 Danger (5) 19 Evolve (7) 21 Dry measure (6) 22 Sweet (6) 23 Nut (6) 25 Supports (5) 26 Colour (4) 28 Donkey (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Game that has a Western history (5) 6 Polo’s other name (5) 9 He handles letters, maybe not maps (7) 10 Hard work gets you wet as can be (5) 11 A writer’s turn to move left (5) 12 Mind the bairn, maybe (5) 13 A sausage the Spanish get in one part of France (7) 15 Is it due fresh in the morning? (3) 17 What is here comes from South Island (4) 18 Tries a new style of humour (6) 19 Get on your bike and do it! (5) 20 For later use in the forward part of a ship (2,4) 22 She’ll give you some more for £50 (4) 24 Time to tour the island with Daisy (3) 25 Marks out England’s capital as not far from Heathrow (7) 26 Bald ones can bring some nasty results (5) 27 Glamour girl high on a “fix”? (3-2) 28 Something about window glass (5) 29 A match possibly fine to wager about (7) 30 Figure the South is flat (5) 31 Good listeners, they may be engaged (5)
DOWN
2 A jumbo back seat (6) 3 A black suit (6) 4 To open talks with a drink (3) 5 Bookish letter to a Conservative (5) 6 It’s wonderful how it makes a GI calm (7) 7 Soon to be nameless (4) 8 It’s not so hot in prison (6) 12 In a bent way, we get somebody out (5) 13 What the candidate did, having no seat (5) 14 Possibly ivy-clad church in France (5) 15 He and mason drew the line (5) 16 Are they deep in the West Country? (5) 18 Possibly the last at Spithead? (5) 19 Drama writer children find pleasure in (7) 21 Indigenous person to alter from choice! (6) 22 Were such men very small? (6) 23 Communication from a Latvian monarch (6) 25 Fixed treatment from weeds (5) 26 Container such as a tub, note (4) 28 Animal of iron? (3)