CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES ACROSS
1 Behave smugly
(5)
6 Musical
instrument (5) 9 Obstruction
(7)
10 Hold up (5) 11 Circular (5) 12 Defeats (5) 13 Facetious (7) 15 Insect (3) 17 Night birds
(4)
18 Turn aside (6) 19 Senior member
(5)
20 Insight (6) 22 Singing voice
(4)
24 Opposite of
cold (3) 25 Straw hats (7) 26 Group of nine
(5)
27 Couches (5) 28 Private teacher
(5)
29 One thousand
million (7) 30 Raising agent
(5) 31 Nuisances (5)
DOWN
2 Keep quiet or
unseen (3,3) 3 Counting frame
(6)
4 Scottish river
(3)
5 Command (5) 6 Sure (7)
7 Cupid (4) 8 Delay, loiter
(6)
12 Pigmeat (5) 13 Jinx (5) 14 Influence (5) 15 Beautiful girl
(5) 16 Distinctive
character (5)
18 Warehouse
(5)
19 Down payment
(7)
21 Prairie wolf (6) 22 Adjust,
accustom (6) 23 Test (3,3) 25 Stomach (5) 26 Arrests (4) 28 Summit (3)
ACROSS CRYPTIC CLUES
1 It’s about wrecking a vessel (1-4) 6 Wood offering scope for carving (5)
9 So it’s up to a convict to make a dash (7) 10 Mickey has nothing to think about (5) 11 Statesmanlike input, possibly? (5)
12 There’s little room on an island for him (5)
13 Served up more or less hot (7) 15 Favourite part of the Indian rope trick (3)
17 It’s not cold in
the attic (4) 18 Poison to remedy out of warmheartedness? (6)
19 Hot music lacking breadth (5)
20 When Dai was bent on taking cook out for the day (6) 22 Pair having a
wild kiss (4) 24 A craze that may seem no end daft (3) 25 It may have a shocking potential (7) 26 They know how to stir up some demand (5)
27 No mime show
(5)
28 He has to do something dramatic (5) 29 One area in which the Aussies aren’t in front (7) 30 Bounded the meadow at one point (5) 31 Impressive characters? (5)
DOWN
2 Irish type of
shoe? (6) 3 Declare Tessa’s upset about Romeo (6)
4 A big one to
note? (3)
5 It has its limitations on the road (5) 6 Generous policeman promises to pay (7)
7 Burden on the
States (4)
8 Silk producer with a website (6)
12 Be a rotter?
(5)
13 Banter easily wafted away (5)
14 Sort of fire quick to gain ground? (5) 15 You could wear one in a park (5)
16 Steer the short
way (5)
18 Sing an opportune rhyme (5)
19 As distributed to the worker on strike? (4-3) 21 A devastating
thing to do (6) 22 Solid enough to keep to the very end (6) 23 Pass over a ravaged region (6)
25 To have and to
hold? (5)
26 In a superior position to mash some potatoes (4) 28 Legislation with no devilish impact? (3)