CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Food on a
skewer (5) 6 Fast (5)
9 South American
country (7) 10 Lariat (5) 11 Skinflint (5) 12 Nun’s costume
(5)
13 Afraid (7) 15 Spanish cry (3) 17 Parched with
heat (4)
18 Flag (6) 19 Writing material
(5)
20 Eight pints (6) 22 Extinct bird (4) 24 Observe (3) 25 Coach (7) 26 Eerie (5) 27 Imitate (5) 28 Defeats (5) 29 Be deceived by
(4,3)
30 A nation’s
warships (5) 31 Circular coral
reef (5)
DOWN
2 Pencil rubber (6) 3 Ludicrous (6) 4 Expression of
disapproval (3) 5 Ultimate (5) 6 Like, resembling
(7)
7 Hang on (4) 8 Frail (6)
12 A person (5) 13 Pointed teeth
(5)
14 Gangway (5) 15 Edible bulb (5) 16 Mistake (5) 18 Facial hair (5) 19 Weasel-like
mammal (7) 21 Antenna (6) 22 Turn aside (6) 23 Of the teeth (6)
25 Cave-dwelling
dwarf (5) 26 Spouse (4) 28 Snake (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 As eaten at the
poker table? (5) 6 It’s apt to be very soft in the hay (5)
9 Classic provider
of reel oil (7) 10 Rob Stella of a pound, maybe (5)
11 What to say when taking French leave? (5) 12 She has her way of working against the IRA (5)
13 The gaffer’s an enthusiast about Rome, possibly (7) 15 Guided by a light-emitting diode (3) 17 Leave it to a former partner (4)
18 Take a month to get some ideas or make a choice (6) 19 Black mark for a chap getting out of line (5) 20 Enumerates the
noblemen (6) 22 House half a mile to the southeast (4) 24 In short, knowledge of no account? (3) 25 It can hardly be in liquid currency! (4,3) 26 Can it never
quite crop up
in adults? (5) 27 As king, a much admired figure to many (5) 28 Credit a politician with something restrictive (5) 29 Though a change of address is unavailable, vacate (4,3) 30 Turn of phrase in which one police inspector gets an order (5)
31 Protect yourself when you pay out for a posh car (5)
DOWN
2 Container in which possibly to bath an animal? (6) 3 Heavenly flight to the capital of Turkey (6) 4 So left a note
(3)
5 Bowler who got Bradman out and upset me (5)
6 The Arne composition to raise the spirits (7)
7 A woman’s name in opera (4)
8 Put together more than a bit (6)
12 They’re of wood, part of it in bulk (5) 13 Exclusive
criminal? (5) 14 Erect for the
time being (3,2) 15 Possibly
poetic lies about a motherless man (5) 16 Fabric I mend
cleverly (5) 18 Unearth a close copy of “14” (3,2)
19 Has a good player to perform a lot to achieve this? (7)
21 Doesn’t upset
the port (6) 22 Anicient city not wholly in South Africa (6) 23 Complain
repetitively (6) 25 New rules for
baits (5) 26 Where, in Italy, Cosmo suffered a small loss? (4)
28 One you’ll see raised at a tea party (3)