CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Rot (5)

6 A set-to (5) 9 Ardour (7) 10 Derision (5) 11 Quick,

informally (5) 12 Cuts into cubes

(5)

13 Visual (7) 15 Father (3) 17 Peruse writing

(4)

18 Salty (6) 19 Sullen or angry

frown (5) 20 Congenital

(6) 22 Superlative of

good (4) 24 Toddler (3) 25 Greek

restaurant (7) 26 Swagger (5) 27 Flying toys

(5) 28 Remembrance

flower (5) 29 Small amount

or portion (7) 30 Start (5) 31 Nervy (5)

DOWN

2 Get away (6) 3 Frightened (6) 4 Monetary unit

(3)

5 Be of use (5) 6 Burial or

cremation (7) 7 Plant (4) 8 Hired assassin

(3,3)

12 Move to music

(5)

13 Planet’s path

(5)

14 Tease (5) 15 Frogman (5) 16 Greek letter

(5)

18 Perspire (5)

19 Cowboy hat

(7)

21 Act of

perceiving (6) 22 Develop into

(6)

23 Wading birds

(6)

25 Spring bulb

(5)

26 House type (4) 28 To place (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Like the numerals used in necromancy (5)

6 Keep it closed in order to hum (5)

9 Care in taking shifty action out of turn (7) 10 Close to

legless? (5) 11 A measure you can get by the kilo (5) 12 What follows here is futuristic (5)

13 Treated to a parting observation (4,3)

15 Such a failure could take Tom aback (3) 17 Puritan with a

shaky grip (4) 18 Rocky beds

(6)

19 Parts of Poplar

East? (5) 20 Photographer’s fancied favourite food? (6)

22 Can he dispense the wisdom of the ages? (4) 24 Heart to heart

organ (3) 25 Upright fellows, our deliverers (7)

26 He helped rename modern St. Petersburg (5)

27 Officer in chief

(5)

28 Cilla bursts

into flower (5) 29 Person not in

good odour (7) 30 New fronts for

cafes (5)

31 Not a whisper to the audience! (5)

DOWN 2 Nominally, he may take a bath (6) 3 Suffering, wrap one’s jaw in pieces

of rag (6)

4 The little chap may bite, we hear (3)

5 Those engaged in supporting the flag? (5) 6 Most men can have theirs (7)

7 Uniquely striking example (4)

8 Swimming tutor upset about a bighead (6)

12 Burning fear, perhaps, all around India (5)

13 Room to spread

capes (5)

14 A bird called

Ida (5) 15 Sometimes heartless form of address (5) 16 Accepted as worth snapping? (5) 18 Where exhibitionists go for hairdressing? (5)

19 Declares the donkey needs to rest anew (7) 21 Smoky city

(6)

22 Agitates about a flight! (6) 23 Brigadier’s wild rage on the road (6) 25 Should such a stool be soft? (5)

26 Go down and look over the southeast (4) 28 Not all leaves

are green (3)