CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Rupture (5) 6 With reference to (2,3) 9 Torture (7) 10 Splendour (5) 11 Culpability (5) 12 Inquired (5) 13 Rich stew (7) 15 Small flap of material (3) 17 Mountain range (4) 18 Star sign (6) 19 Unfashionable (5) 20 Irregular (6) 22 Spoken, verbal (4) 24 Pitch (3) 25 Plunder (7) 26 Soup server (5) 27 Fulcrum (5) 28 Cookers (5) 29 Coast (7) 30 Defeats (5) 31 Worthless matter (5)

DOWN

2 Unfashionable, informally (6) 3 Plays for time (6) 4 Toddler (3) 5 Break violently (5) 6 Enraged (7) 7 Fastener (4) 8 Lent out (2,4) 12 Of Asia (5) 13 Whole range (5) 14 Shoe part (5) 15 Jewelled headdress (5) 16 Holy book (5) 18 Magic servant (5) 19 Formal discussions (7) 21 Indigenous (6) 22 Boy’s name (6) 23 Representatives (6) 25 Luxurious (5) 26 Missing (4) 28 Peculiar (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 When many ring out, there’s something afoot (5) 6 Bus drivers find them arresting (5) 9 Freedom to be statuesque? (7) 10 Remove a number of workers (5) 11 He’ll not be back after one! (5) 12 A slip that can mean a come-down (5) 13 Declared when two chaps were out of the side (7) 15 A pointed piece of information (3) 17 Drink made as a brew (4) 18 Cleric clever enough to take in an artist? (6) 19 The weather’s most unsettled around the end of September (5) 20 Avoids unwise duels with an egghead (6) 22 Spilling it could make you a bit rueful (4) 24 Sort of music one might knock? (3) 25 Being cruel, how could they be said to be saints? (7) 26 Clever, but indisposed to possess money (5) 27 The champion’s name? (5) 28 In the course of shifty politics, it’s legal (5) 29 Passes over wild regions (7) 30 Cuts in the police service around Southend (5) 31 Those present when the sheet was torn (5)

DOWN

2 Become breathless when no longer healthy (6) 3 Great king for little men (6) 4 Came down lightly (3) 5 A country area (as at Harrow?) (5) 6 By arrangement, admit us to the sports centre (7) 7 Is Newcastle such a side? (4) 8 As gained when a paid player is in good shape (6) 12 Sets out for central Streatham (e.g., aboard a bus) (5) 13 Yellow variety of bream (5) 14 Become suitably advanced at golf (3,2) 15 A river to label American (5) 16 Strips off so as to rest up (5) 18 Credit timber with being sound (5) 19 They’re needed on deck when southeasterly gales are raging (3,4) 21 Being generous, a number lash out (6) 22 For the finale, fish out a wind piece (6) 23 In certain ways, moral values can sound a bit thick! (6) 25 Pick up a letter with an enclosure (5) 26 A fielding error? (4) 28 The French style of shirt is permitted (3)