CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Sound of pain (5) 6 Panel (5) 9 Regain (7) 10 Observable (5) 11 Routine (5) 12 Defamation (5) 13 Shine (7) 15 Possessive pronoun (3) 17 Loaned (4) 18 Bounded (6) 19 Smith’s block (5) 20 Account (6) 22 Chief (4) 24 Consume (3) 25 Obviously (7) 26 Lure (5) 27 Buffalo (5) 28 Fool (5) 29 Sun-shade (7) 30 Fish basket (5) 31 Poor (5)

DOWN

2 Abuse (6) 3 Apprehend (6) 4 Mesh (3) 5 Small bird (5) 6 Plague (7) 7 Spoken (4) 8 Bat (6) 12 Inclined (5) 13 Angry look (5) 14 Unsuitable (5) 15 Rambler (5) 16 Prepared (5) 18 Female horse (5) 19 Arms depot (7) 21 Less difficult (6) 22 Treat (6) 23 Nut (6) 25 Marine creature (5) 26 Illegal drug (4) 28 Charged particle (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Not much to salvage? (5) 6 Reason for an about turn, just in case (5) 9 A plant the small man has a name for (7) 10 Not occupied as a learner in getting a tune wrong (5) 11 Attack of mass torment (5) 12 No way to play piano (5) 13 Put something extra in a vehicle that’s burdened (7) 15 Old soldier’s great day at the West End (3) 17 The notion that one has a deal requiring no money (4) 18 Good man taking a rotter to tea, perhaps (6) 19 For a start, half of us are in debt! (5) 20 Does it cleave through the water? (6) 22 Cage containing vital personal necessities (4) 24 Period of cheese rationing (3) 25 Not dated in formal parlance (4,3) 26 Like a smart move when it’s quiet during a raid (5) 27 Superior location of the fringe of Surrey (2,3) 28 It’s fine for sowing small seeds (5) 29 Arrangers of rosters (7) 30 Required to seem terribly sad about a bit of a joke (5) 31 Not exactly years long (5)

DOWN

2 The author possibly ran into a swimmer (6) 3 A businesslike programme (6) 4 A favourite trumpet piece (3) 5 Tolerated a bore? (5) 6 Eject a person you see as a ticket spiv? (4,3) 7 Like a room in the canteen? (4) 8 So Bert’s mixed up in something nice (6) 12 Like the pitch of a note, always? (5) 13 Because sin, initially, may be nice (5) 14 A letter from Greece -- to Denmark’s capital? (5) 15 OK, but it’s no good being in this (5) 16 Steer erratically, in short (5) 18 Cherubic type promoted into the CID (5) 19 The multi-limbed creature walked up for a bit of food (7) 21 Planet depicted by a superior artist at sunrise? (6) 22 Have another look at the old ground (6) 23 Beer for which the German is heard to say please? (6) 25 Allows to trickle through one’s fists? (5) 26 Her name came up (4) 28 Do one’s best in the test (3)