CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Contract (5) 6 Wash out (5) 9 Knocked over (7) 10 Punctuation mark (5) 11 Fold (5) 12 Hackneyed (5) 13 Twist (7) 15 Favourite (3) 17 Frozen confections (4) 18 Mountainous (6) 19 Cloth (5) 20 Claim (6) 22 Sound quality (4) 24 Born (3) 25 Group (7) 26 Sketch show (5) 27 Spanish city (5) 28 Of birds (5) 29 Criticism (7) 30 Drain (5) 31 Pieces of evidence (5)

DOWN 2 Sensual (6) 3 Weasels (6) 4 Age (3) 5 Recreation (5) 6 Cold-blooded creature (7) 7 Lazy (4) 8 Flower part (6) 12 Characteristic (5) 13 Settee (5) 14 Feeling (5) 15 Aviator (5) 16 Belief (5) 18 Row (5) 19 Kitchen appliance (7) 21 Calm (6) 22 Journey (6) 23 Nullify (6) 25 Search (5) 26 Cereal crop (4) 28 Curve (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Condescend too heartily (5) 6 Wild mob in a company or group (5) 9 A few words from the officer taking one forward (7) 10 Flat on the floor? (5) 11 Gain the favour of the dog with the furry tail (5) 12 Nice places where one gets out and walks (5) 13 Removed from a book no tutor would vandalise (4,3) 15 It grows in the south of Ireland (3) 17 Classic music from “Octopussy” (4) 18 Unflappable direction by Monsieur Clair (6) 19 Can they cannily adjust costs? (5) 20 Grab the young birds, potentially? (6) 22 Lisa may be after her (4) 24 The man’s goal is apparently a rugby one (3) 25 Make a big profit as a charlady? (5,2) 26 Support possibly lost out of love (5) 27 No great swimmer (5) 28 Dunderhead taking a trial run? (5) 29 Does it defame some islanders? (7) 30 High-sounding article on the Kent coast (5) 31 A beastly noise in the NE part of Highgate (5)

DOWN 2 Up where Wordsworth finished -- a new poet! (3,3) 3 Ample room for manoeuvring canoes (6) 4 Dad’s left, chum (3) 5 Animal finishing breakfast on cooked oats (5) 6 A fowl to the French, shellfish to us (7) 7 Love at sunrise can be a burden (4) 8 Was it a city of separatists? (6) 12 Is alcoholic, but with no kick? (5) 13 Such paper is slow to burn (5) 14 Nominal bit of fuss by the Rugby Union (5) 15 Criminal reformed by that fathead Noel! (5) 16 Again honour a player summarily? (5) 18 Are such waters alcoholic? (5) 19 Rush to sink the ship (7) 21 Left to make suggestions flaccidly (6) 22 Old enough to have a friend round for half an hour (6) 23 Not the beaten player’s favourite spice! (6) 25 He’ll be numbered as noble (5) 26 A small wooden frame? (4) 28 Little boy’s room (3)