CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Rot (5)

6 Vote in (5)

9 Be prominent

(7)

10 Terminate prematurely (5)

11 Ancient artefact

(5)

12 Sucrose (5) 13 Tolerant (7) 15 Metallic

element (3) 17 Among (4) 18 Savage (6) 19 Of a city or

citizens (5) 20 View or glance

(6)

22 Quote (4) 24 And not (3) 25 Smoked herring

(7)

26 Churlish (5) 27 Perfect (5) 28 Whole range or

scale (5) 29 Jelly-like sweet

(7)

30 Attempts (5) 31 Discourage (5)

DOWN

2 Symbol (6) 3 Frightened (6) 4 Nevertheless

(3)

5 Portly (5) 6 Irregular (7) 7 Look

lasciviously (4) 8 Reviewer (6) 12 Escargot (5) 13 Loaded (5) 14 African river (5) 15 Characteristic

(5)

16 Not ever (5) 18 Young female

horse (5) 19 Cloud type (7) 21 Over there (6)

22 Savoury snack

(6)

23 Term of office

(6)

25 Knife part (5) 26 Savant (4) 28 Deity (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 It’s exciting to have a drink with one (5) 6 Admitted having been bought? (5)

9 Seamen possibly love to forgive (7) 10 The place for fencing may be on the ski slopes (5) 11 Composer of “The Spanish Rag”? (5) 12 Pumping centre

(5)

13 One whose parliamentary seat is free? (7) 15 Cry of a part-time worker (3)

17 She’ll finish up

out of iodine (4) 18 A piano on hire

will suit (6) 19 Wrongly take to be a form of slate (5)

20 A letter to declare one’s property (6) 22 Eating his, could make a fathead sick (4)

24 Let’s suppose aunt is robbed of £50 (3) 25 Cuts round the bend in certain channels (7) 26 Erotic, perhaps, but not without taste (5) 27 Something to

hang on to? (5) 28 Vehicle to buy, horse included (5)

29 Student, initially one having a job (7) 30 Possibly dead at the end of the world, furthermore (5) 31 Would he attempt to embrace H.M.? (5)

DOWN

2 It’s sweet, but less than elevating (6) 3 Tangled with a couple of guys (6)

4 Holding a CD, he’d be perfectly in order (3)

5 No part of a travelogue is fiction (5)

6 The general, of course, is everybody’s superior (7) 7 Part of a shoe left in the rain (4)

8 A steel product that stimulates! (6)

12 In which one eats rashly at a hotel? (5) 13 We get Les out

of town (5) 14 After a bit, some duty becomes discontinuous (5)

15 It’s wonderful

how master Joe gets the car to start (5)

16 An author’s deep sources? (5)

18 Friendly with a beginner in a new play (5) 19 Trod very softly taking a horse out (7)

21 A seasoned

couple (6) 22 Fire about half the guns - a number, that is (6)

23 The book on the shelf to the right (6) 25 With a delicate

cut? (5) 26 Bargain opportunity in town (4)

28 To live at central Tooting involves risk (3)