CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Decree (5) 6 Couples (5) 9 Vacation (7) 10 Heathen (5) 11 Harvests
(5)
12 Defeats (5) 13 Crossed out
(7)
15 Noise (3) 17 Revise (4) 18 Sedate (6) 19 Painful affliction
(5)
20 Prickly (6) 22 Skin complaint
(4)
24 Distress signal
(3)
25 Colonist (7) 26 Attest (5) 27 Paddle-boat
(5)
28 Chosen (5) 29 Ecstasy (7) 30 Prise (5) 31 Strayed (5)
DOWN
2 Hung (6)
3 Swiss villa
(6)
4 Unit of weight
(3)
5 Sacked (5) 6 Companion
(7)
7 Affirmative
votes (4)
8 Mend (6) 12 Stomach (5) 13 Hollows (5) 14 Swimming-pools
(5)
15 Fool (5)
16 At no time
(5)
18 Jeans material
(5)
19 Vague (7) 21 Show of respect
(6) 22 Deer’s horn
(6) 23 Snuggle (6) 25 Liquid
measures (5) 26 Centre (4) 28 Before (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Hide some sticks of wood? (5)
6 Untidy as certain eating places? (5) 9 Such remarks can have a goading effect (7)
10 Run over in a mad caper (5) 11 Revolutionary linen maker (5)
12 Republic, American backed and reorganised (5)
13 Far from
detached? (7) 15 It’s bad when one has to take a corner twice! (3)
17 A lot of land
(4)
18 Officer taking a girl out as a matter of business (6) 19 A machine to stretch your neck? (5) 20 Stick to business in this place (6) 22 Keep moving,
pet (4)
24 Little creature’s contribution to beef tea (3) 25 They usually need one or two players (7) 26 Unconventional person who’d like a joint? (5)
27 A removal sign
(5)
28 Lists of bad actors not including Charlie (5) 29 Is his military career all over? (7)
30 Fathead always in a heated state (5)
31 A bit of a
bloomer (5)
DOWN
2 Writing about heists that have gone wrong? (6) 3 Ancient city or district in South Africa (6)
4 To jump is hot
work! (3)
5 A nose for
tobacco (5) 6 This mixture gives me a new angle (7)
7 Place of unprecedented pleasure (4) 8 Protection thrown around a novice (6)
12 Sound asleep!
(5)
13 Move rhythmically with a chap at half pace (5)
14 A good deal
of sense (5) 15 Not the big
picture (5) 16 Water leaks,
possibly (5) 18 Some boys, after a girl, cause displeasure (5)
19 Vessel right behind Tom (7)
21 Whence the workers get away for refreshment (6)
22 Promise dad a
part (6)
23 In Hawaii, he starts as he finishes (6) 25 Salesmen use it in untidy piles (5)
26 A big squeeze, sweetheart! (4)
28 Strike quickly,
not idly (3)