DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Pure (5)

6 Room (5)

9 Flowering plant (7)

10 Entice (5)

11 Spoor (5)

12 Refute (5)

13 Swell (7)

15 Beseech (3)

17 Yes votes (4)

18 Saunter (6)

19 Troll (5)

20 Incursion (6)

22 Insects (4)

24 Container (3)

25 Dishes (7)

26 Church singers (5)

27 Levy (5)

28 Huge (5)

29 Herb (7)

30 Retains (5)

31 Below (5)

DOWN

2 Latitude (6)

3 Dismays (6)

4 Mesh (3)

5 Female monarch (5)

6 Locate (7)

7 Separate (4)

8 Tool (6)

12 Circular (5)

13 Fundamental (5)

14 Study (5)

15 Irish river (5)

16 Lustre (5)

18 Bedaub (5)

19 Assembles (7)

21 Indigenous (6)

22 Deed (6)

23 Hypnotic state (6)

25 Scorch (5)

26 Cut (4)

28 Wildebeest (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 A difficult time in court (5)

6 Overweight possibly, but able to get by (5)

9 In passenger transport, it’s not a big thing (7)

10 The bit to abandon (5)

11 Dobbin’s reaction to a hinge breaking? (5)

12 Alert to change in more modern times (5)

13 Composer who seemed a bit of a bore to

a sculptor? (7)

15 Be maudlin, perhaps, when less than

sober (3)

17 A more or less lofty club (4)

18 Shoot the dope! (6)

19 Fight a law-breaker on British Rail (5)

20 Take a good look at the box, perhaps (6)

22 Cut from cashew nuts (4)

24 Indo-Chinese exclamation? (3)

25 For show, stripped during an exotic act (7)

26 Hurry to exclude a drunkard from the

company (5)

27 One in favour of exterminating Doctor

Who (5)

28 A piece of land possessed by the

church (5)

29 Unions in business (7)

30 Open and endlessly benign, perhaps (5)

31 She puts a bit of work into the making of a

hat (5)

DOWN

2 Most correct, in a fashion, as he should be (6)

3 Female deadlier than the male (6) 4 Cheeky learner driver I park behind! (3)

5 Number one bed (5)

6 Like a fun lute composition (7)

7 One who operates within the house rules (4)

8 On foot, it’s great! (3,3)

12 Amount you get for a quarter of a cent

in foreign money (5)

13 No big game? (5)

14 He’s rude and not very precise (5)

15 Wearer of extra-long slippers (5)

16 As borne by a born weakling? (5)

18 Waste product containing salt (5)

19 Denigrate a fellow for concealing a

shortage (7)

21 An eighth of the music (6)

22 For a Scot, the corn is high (6)

23 Sam, it seems, is comparatively

healthy (6)

25 If you want to pay, up with it! (5)

26 Little house on a southeastern

motorway (4)

28 He’s got the knack (3)