DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS 1 Snake (5) 6 Artificial waterway (5) 9 Greek letter (7) 10 Phantom (5) 11 Way (5) 12 Fruit (5) 13 Craftsman (7) 15 Farm animal (3) 17 Endure (4) 18 Married Spanish woman (6) 19 Abate (5) 20 Nonsense (6) 22 Cribs (4) 24 Attention (3) 25 Rifle attachment (7) 26 Lawful (5) 27 Big cat (5) 28 Flower (5) 29 Assail (7) 30 Gleam (5) 31 Raising agent (5)
DOWN 2 Stick (6) 3 Rouse (6) 4 Appropriate (3) 5 Female fox (5) 6 Crown (7) 7 Soon (4) 8 Writer (6) 12 Jacket part (5) 13 Home (5) 14 Long-snouted mammal (5) 15 Punctuation mark (5) 16 Midriff (5) 18 Rope fibre (5) 19 Opposite (7) 21 Pungent root (6) 22 Prairie wolf (6) 23 Entices (6) 25 Commonplace (5) 26 Thin (4) 28 Thickness (3)
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CRYPTIC ACROSS 1 Initial source of much terrible strife (5) 6 New heart for the world (5) 9 What the fishwife may have on hand? (7) 10 It’s out of Gateshead the runner started (5) 11 Reach and grasp a tin opener (3,2) 12 Said to have whirled, it’s still rotating (5) 13 Vagrant fellow in the city (7) 15 Blue or green area (3) 17 Possibly wane afresh (4) 18 Slow voyages round the pole (6) 19 Allowed to be heard (5) 20 Star who had a place in Merseyside (6) 22 Turn us about, for certain (4) 24 The way of a showman (3) 25 Does he ignore things in his log? (7) 26 Chancy girl? (5) 27 An “in car” variety of dog? (5) 28 Class or group of antelopes out East (5) 29 A club exploited by the alleged villain (7) 30 Bit of a poser, generally, in material terms? (5) 31 What a possessive father calls his son? (2,3)
DOWN 2 In the Civil War, his anger carried weight (6) 3 In the darkness, caught in a female’s embrace (6) 4 Number of abstentions (3) 5 Where to play golf or not, as you choose (5) 6 Lion country! (7) 7 Though old, managed without a valet (4) 8 Go, drunken varlet! (6) 12 Properly, one of a pair (5) 13 Thatcherite hole in the wall? (5) 14 To be vulgar is beneath one (5) 15 Avoid early retirement! (3,2) 16 Blooming awful rates! (5) 18 Showing displeasure with a vehicle (5) 19 The missing quality that makes for conspicuousness (7) 21 Go round and list half the team (6) 22 Quick as the recovery of a boy in the river? (6) 23 Hot number chosen by cook? (6) 25 Such friends will always give you a drink (5) 26 Express pride in one’s game (4) 28 A valued acquisition in management (3)