DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Friendship (5)

6 Not true (5)

9 Ling (7)

10 Map (5)

11 Cinder (5)

12 Toys (5)

13 Corsairs (7)

15 Give a title to (3)

17 Parched (4)

18 Company of actors (6)

19 Sham (5)

20 Dismal (6)

22 Chime (4)

24 Ventilate (3)

25 Vacation (7)

26 Cheroot, say (5)

27 Assumed name (5)

28 Fastening pin (5)

29 Deer meat (7)

30 Peace birds (5)

31 Not clean (5)

DOWN

2 Angora (6)

3 Sewing material (6)

4 Nevertheless (3)

5 Character (5)

6 Tentacles (7)

7 Limbs (4)

8 Accelerate (4,2)

12 Lure (5)

13 Large bearlike mammal (5)

14 Clyde, say (5)

15 Hoodwinked (5)

16 Abdomen (5)

18 Teacher (5)

19 Contusions (7)

21 Market or exchange (6)

22 Swimming costume (6)

23 Bewail (6)

25 Usual behaviour (5)

26 Grotto (4)

28 Stick (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Parts badly buckled? (5)

6 In civil law, a domicile (5)

9 He’ll accomplish little with a can opener! (7)

10 Character dramatically awaited (5)

11 Sounds a sweetie! (5)

12 During January, pop out East (5)

13 There’s big money in the city (7)

15 Donkey in the Christmas story (3)

17 Employs American ways (4)

18 In extremes of penury, lent a good deal (6)

19 Alleviate everything for some days (5)

20 Is out of business due to high standards (6)

22 Perform in a fresh manner (4)

24 Black salt? (3)

25 Encountered wild deer in measured quantity (7)

26 For many on late turn, it can be heavy (5)

27 Can one teach you to cook trout? (5)

28 Playful figures in court (5)

29 Such comedians, presumably, will not get you rolling in the aisles! (5-2)

30 A match for the Roman goddess (5)

31 Is still in the forest, somewhere (5)

DOWN

2 He’s had his doubts (6)

3 A Spanish gentleman is a fine fellow (6)

4 Shoot in the belly? (3)

5 In the end, fail erroneously to accept a point (5)

6 Add six to the total, essentially (7)

7 Image of a counterfeit coin? (4)

8 The match at Los Angeles is the final (6)

12 A jug and a can, say? (5)

13 An old army measure? (5)

14 When blue, does he flag significantly? (5)

15 A matter of seeing red in an orangery? (5)

16 Council in agreement on putting an end to heresy (5)

18 Are such games typically flat? (5)

19 Where, in Canada, to keep an article on a chain (7)

21 Blue water? (6)

22 New price noted as significant to cooks (6)

23 Fed up with endless grub, you get a beating (6)

25 German town showing amazing new heart! (5)

26 Word of emphasis used by Demosthenes (4)

28 Natural cover many animals need (3)