CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Adjoins (5) 6 Extinguish (5) 9 Bitterness (7) 10 Influence (5) 11 US farm (5) 12 Rustic (5) 13 Crustacean (7) 15 Swamp (3) 17 Detail (4) 18 Fascination (6) 19 Mud (5) 20 Vigorous (6) 22 Country (4) 24 Barrel (3) 25 Lasts (7) 26 Fear (5) 27 Biblical king (5) 28 Passageway (5) 29 Bard (7) 30 Seraglio (5) 31 Tint (5)

DOWN

2 Vote (6) 3 Platitude (6) 4 Was seated (3) 5 Search (5) 6 Hard-wearing (7) 7 Spoken (4) 8 Zone (6) 12 Answer (5) 13 Lamp (5) 14 Started (5) 15 Purchaser (5) 16 Type (5) 18 Correct (5) 19 Fame (7)

21 Cry of triumph

(6)

22 Penalise (6) 23 Staggered (6) 25 Soil (5)

26 Fool (4) 28 Donkey (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Race across the

border (5)

6 A nut’s cracked for the ladies (5)

9 We back a

movie (7)

10 A youngster takes it no great distance (5)

11 See a measure as a certainty (5)

12 Very close to

inebriated? (5) 13 Make out diners are upset about the cold (7) 15 A large container of salt (3)

17 Not far from

Winchester (4) 18 Do you take one, airily, when about to get in the bath? (6) 19 Urges on, as a

team (5) 20 They’re of growing potential in timber production (6) 22 Scuba diver’s

land (4) 24 Game to make

a pile at? (3) 25 Gathered in numbers and went climbing (7)

26 The wooden one is not prized (5) 27 Deign to start

singing too

softly (5)

28 Soil in a

foxhole? (5) 29 They can warm the ears, somehow (7) 30 A good man,

earlier (5) 31 Terry arranges to have another go (5)

DOWN

2 Relative getting money out of Uncle Sam? (6) 3 Taunt a companion, the jerk! (6) 4 Ancient god of

radio? (3)

5 One with ants swarming around is not a pretty sight (5) 6 Were they bent on making military history? (7)

7 One or many (4) 8 A marked card

(6)

12 Dopey

excursions? (5) 13 Many a Russian can sleep on one (5)

14 Pick up a good

story (5) 15 Southern lily found in old Salisbury (5) 16 In front of a senior teacher (5)

18 Tawny as an

owl (5)

19 Fish photographer? (7) 21 Heavenly twin actors, possibly (6)

22 A line that will get you credit with no difficulty (6)

23 The superior

punter? (6) 25 Ducks into a swine of a place with a puppet! (5)

26 Thus gets a house somewhere in London (4) 28 Wrong thing to do with the “Old Mother Riley” part (3)