CROSSWORD

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

ACROSS

1 Routine (5) 6 Feeling (5) 9 Found (7) 10 Continental

(5)

11 Zodiac sign

(5)

12 Thing of value

(5)

13 Esteem (7) 15 Guided (3) 17 Minerals (4) 18 Procession

(6)

19 Ordeal (5) 20 Biblical

strongman (6) 22 Fairy (4) 24 Attempt (3) 25 Furniture item

(7)

26 Cutlery item

(5)

27 Demon (5) 28 Keen (5) 29 Fall (7) 30 War-horse (5) 31 Dissuade (5)

DOWN

2 Reply (6) 3 Vices (6) 4 Age (3) 5 Middle (5) 6 Many (7) 7 Revise (4) 8 Drooped (6) 12 Oak fruit (5) 13 Cook in the

oven (5) 14 Sordid (5) 15 Loaded (5) 16 Subtract (5) 18 Heathen (5) 19 Fell over (7) 21 Apprehend

(6)

22 Corsair (6) 23 Draw back (6) 25 Shell (5) 26 Team (4) 28 Finish (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Dozens and dozens -- an excessive figure? (5)

6 The subject of new hats at end of term (5)

9 When you seem too tired for Saturday or Sunday? (7) 10 Mum’s not saying a word (5)

11 The seaman’s decoration? (5)

12 School fees?

(5)

13 One slow to wrap up his water pipes? (7)

15 Little Derek,

led astray (3) 17 Responsibility for possibly failing to reach a sound conclusion? (4)

18 Charm that makes everybody turn about (6)

19 Possibly hellish clangers? (5) 20 Flying nurses?

(6)

22 Rescue a number in a stormy sea (4)

24 One pork pie of many, that is (3)

25 As used for pounding that nuisance Leslie? (7) 26 Mark two (5) 27 Started to appeal to the United Nations (5)

28 At a dead end, the new idea helped (5) 29 It’s simply unexciting when you leave the main road (4-3)

30 It’s sweet and may be golden (5)

31 Does he need

a towelling? (5)

DOWN

2 President stirred to anger about an African leader (6)

3 Their pleasure is pendulous (6) 4 Getting fixed is all you need (3)

5 Hit up, as at

cricket (5) 6 They live on milk initially (7)

7 They’re of one

accord (4) 8 Her tea is spilt on the radiator (6) 12 Goes for one’s

shots (5) 13 Not the travellers’ pub (5) 14 Sticky mess, perhaps, but only part of it is no good (5)

15 Claud, becoming a nobleman? (5) 16 In East Sussex, a number of sheep (5)

18 A new line in

movies? (5) 19 Enlarged to the point of destruction? (5,2)

21 Well, it could be a princely part! (6)

22 If in a state of rest, it means trouble (6) 23 That skin-deep

beauty (6) 25 Joanna, to the Cockney, may be grand (5)

26 A skirt in matching halves (4)

28 One foot nearer the stern (3)