CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Trust (5) 6 Photo book (5) 9 Hermit (7) 10 With reference to (2,3) 11 Chair on poles (5) 12 Godly (5) 13 Practical joke (3-4) 15 Floor covering (3) 17 Cupid (4) 18 Study (6) 19 Romantic appointments (5) 20 Pamper (6) 22 Change direction (4) 24 Shade of colour (3) 25 Unusual, weird (7) 26 Rope-making fibre (5) 27 Of the eye (5) 28 Pilfer (5) 29 Laughs nervously (7) 30 Feat of daring (5) 31 Thick (5)

DOWN

2 Solution (6) 3 Soldiers (6) 4 That woman (3) 5 Threshing implement (5) 6 Takes for granted (7) 7 Sediment (4) 8 Planet (6) 12 Fold in clothing (5) 13 Bloodsucker (5) 14 Web-footed bird (5) 15 Measuring stick (5) 16 Kind, category (5) 18 Danger or jeopardy (5) 19 Shortage (7) 21 Production (6) 22 Travelling case (6) 23 Puts up (6) 25 Canal boat (5) 26 Indication (4) 28 Gave food to (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 The region of religious writing (5) 6 Is he less clever than Dick? (5) 9 Desirous of managing the fuel to go to the dance (7) 10 Faint pretty quickly out West (5) 11 Amphibians in all directions taking tea! (5) 12 Grown the mistaken way (5) 13 Broke off the conversation? (7) 15 This female had to get out of something shady! (3) 17 Hard to see? (4) 18 Girl transported by aliens (6) 19 In league, they have unique points (5) 20 Coming out of one part of Dover, cutters can sink! (6) 22 Bother to embrace us in extremes of fondness (4) 24 Desire for money (3) 25 A sticky wicket, maybe (4-3) 26 Latest thing in ties (5) 27 A little line calling for reduction (5) 28 Half a ton (5) 29 The part one possibly notices (7) 30 Flung one into the shed (5) 31 In cars, they’re mostly forward (5)

DOWN

2 Squabbling in a boat? (6) 3 The sort of sea to suit a cutter? (6) 4 A century, maybe, but it’s not over (3) 5 It’s hard to hide a key, one learned (5) 6 Coach about nine new girls (7) 7 Russian name for a whole-hearted member (4) 8 Fastening of the mushroom variety (6) 12 Has an attritional effect on pointed ears (5) 13 It suits a solitary traveller to be untalkative (5) 14 He makes money in vain, maybe (5) 15 A little exercise to keep out of bed for (3-2) 16 Surprisingly, it was the narrow part! (5) 18 It’s fine being a toff (5) 19 Created in sixes, indeed! (7) 21 The good condition has a bearing on what you want (6) 22 Being catty, feel upset about a bit of pain (6) 23 One of the kinder mail handlers? (6) 25 Typically pedestrian ways of being progressive (5) 26 Wire with no piano purpose (4) 28 Fatheaded own goal due to bad visibility (3)