CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS 1 Customary (5) 6 Smears (5) 9 Indicator (7) 10 Unit of purity of
gold (5) 11 Female relative
(5)
12 Quick (5) 13 Fiery person (7) 15 Favourite (3) 17 Man-eating
giant (4) 18 Ridicule (6) 19 Twelve (5) 20 Tarantula, say
(6)
22 Untidy state (4) 24 Shade of brown
(3)
25 Sharp reply (7) 26 Drying cloth
(5)
27 Of rabies (5) 28 Breaks
suddenly (5) 29 Young hare (7) 30 Nuisances (5) 31 Tyrants (5)
DOWN
2 Old sailor (3,3) 3 Native American
(6)
4 Auction item (3) 5 Work dough
(5)
6 Inhabitant (7) 7 Dry (4) 8 Supported (6) 12 Shaving
implement (5) 13 Raise (5) 14 Coach (5) 15 Heaps (5) 16 Tantalise (5) 18 Satan (5) 19 Deciphers (7) 21 Royal residence
(6)
22 Climbs (6) 23 Dazed state
(6)
25 Insurgent (5) 26 Tip up (4) 28 Harden (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Possibly put on in a London park (5) 6 Passes over sporting leaders, in short (5)
9 A few words or couple of letters making a point, cleverly (7)
10 Girl’s name for a French city (5)
11 Change from green to red, maybe (5) 12 Come out with a burst of speed (5)
13 Loud noises
from puffers (7) 15 Sibilant little
sibling (3) 17 Prepare less than expeditely (4)
18 Tease a companion for a sign of restlessness (6)
19 Where frogs’ legs may be eaten in pairs (5)
20 Faith in direct
action (6)
22 In business, one is not soft (4)
24 Is he half cut?
(3)
25 Wherein rushing water cuts round a bend? (7) 26 Crept out of hotels without finishing lunch (5)
27 Irrational devotion to a mere craze (5) 28 Judged to interfere with trade (5)
29 One advising a priest, perhaps, on central heating (7) 30 Flat enterable from front or rear (5) 31 Aliens from the ends of the earth (5)
DOWN
2 Covered with extremes of peril on the wrong date (6) 3 Mysterious
officer heading
a sect (6)
4 No it’s less than
ten a year (3) 5 Walks up and
down? (5)
6 Thus growl, love, at points of sadness (7) 7 Use needles to a possibly comforting end (4)
8 Sort of licence one needs to write verse? (6)
12 No such thing as a piece of cake! (5)
13 A place to comb when stranded? (5)
14 Wrong use of
words (5) 15 Drunken sot, I see, showing little emotion (5) 16 Amid hisses, a bad actor simulates (5) 18 A name one may fight for (5)
19 Beastly end for a man to have? (7)
21 Have a grave
effect upon (6) 22 Character playing a big part in a gambling game (6)
23 In Congreve, readers, you’ll find a hero named Paul (6) 25 Cut a corner in a window frame (5)
26 Locate with
sound sense (4) 28 Bit of a square peg, this salesman? (3)