CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Fossil resin (5) 6 Light wood (5) 9 Ungrudging

(7) 10 Precipitous (5) 11 Wireless (5) 12 Pretend (5) 13 Without end

(7)

15 Fish (3) 17 Norse god (4) 18 Expand (6) 19 Alarm (5) 20 Unspoken (6) 22 Additional (4) 24 Diocese (3) 25 Rifle attachment (7)

26 Prise (5)

27 Beer mug (5) 28 Lukewarm (5) 29 Month (7) 30 Pickling solution

(5)

31 Rage (5)

DOWN

2 System (6) 3 Number (6) 4 Rend (3) 5 Ague (5) 6 Haggle (7) 7 Boy’s name

(4)

8 Mettle (6) 12 Stinking (5) 13 Concentrate

(5)

14 Wash out (5) 15 Pigmeat (5) 16 Brimless cap

(5)

18 Exclude (5) 19 Stillness (7) 21 Delicious drink

(6) 22 Contemporary

(6)

23 Cooking instructions (6) 25 Broom (5) 26 Big cat (4) 28 Beverage (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Time off due

to injury? (5) 6 Digger’s home in the southeast (5)

9 Is his military career all over? (7)

10 Very displeased with a useless railway (5) 11 That boy with

an air (5)

12 A mug one possibly sent out for (5) 13 Frankness can upset the nosy (7) 15 Showed the way to get around Leatherhead (3) 17 Surrounded by many in support (4)

18 Walk, or ride on a little way (6)

19 Dresses up as

girls (5)

20 Had a diversion - a great day with the wild deer (6)

22 If upset by the dog having no tail, it’s still a pet name (4) 24 A notedly hard-hearted listener? (3) 25 For a girl, a very good outing is an enjoyable time (7) 26 Drink doggedly?

(3,2) 27 Discoloration of satin maybe (5)

28 In the dictionary, a word meaning “ruling” (5) 29 An eccentric’s unorthodox delivery (7) 30 Jeremy, it seems, works at the laundry (5)

31 Blunder hidden by my being bright and cheerful (5)

DOWN

2 The price of

freedom (6) 3 An avaricious quality, that’s understood (6) 4 An opener is

such a man (3) 5 Blackish mole?

(5)

6 They love to

hurt (7) 7 Technical drawing of a tailless aircraft (4)

8 Not loveless, indeed, but depressed (6) 12 Ran, yet was

still! (5)

13 Much more than decimate! (5)

14 It’s better to be sincere at heart, albeit shifty! (5) 15 Hidden in cover, a girl is really angry! (5) 16 Tempt to break a code, at the end of

the day (5) 18 Could you sail it solo, perhaps, on the quiet? (5)

19 Calls for

supplies? (7) 21 Annual flower for a sweetheart! (6) 22 Is it played dishonestly? (6)

23 Performer possibly having fans (6) 25 Might he be short with his wife? (5) 26 African king capable of fooling when surrounded by fog (4)

28 What Nigel Mansell has, can put you in the shade (3)