DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS
1 Body part (5)
6 Group of twenty (5)
9 Cautious (7)
10 Cutlery item (5)
11 Present age (5)
12 Haughty (5)
13 Duck type (7)
15 Encountered (3)
17 Cupid (4)
18 Next to (6)
19 Traffic markers (5)
20 Puma (6)
22 Camel’s
protuberance (4)
24 Limb (3)
25 Gratifies (7)
26 Frustrates (5)
27 Make void (5)
28 Big (5)
29 Not either (7)
30 Unwelcome plants (5)
31 Love (5)
DOWN
2 Seem (6)
3 Frowns sullenly (6)
4 Brown (3)
5 Eerie (5)
6 Stitches (7)
7 Lump of earth (4)
8 Harvested (6)
12 Preceding (5)
13 Holy city (5)
14 Stand-in doctor (5)
15 Take away (5)
16 Shortterm workers (5)
18 Chimes (5)
19 Wheedles (7)
21 Colour (6)
22 Risk (6)
23 Amalgamation (6)
25 Planet (5)
26 Money reserve (4)
28 Meadow (3)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 The duchess’s game (5)
6 As worn by the astronomer? (5)
9 Dyes that do so are a failure (7)
10 It’s after frisky fun that one’s out of
condition (5)
11 The highest point? (5)
12 How Stein became established? (3,2)
13 The educator had tea with
an actress (7)
15 Keep her quiet! (3)
17 Marble, perhaps, in
architectural use (4)
18 Unexcited on the way to a meeting (6)
19 Don’t allow bread to spoil (5)
20 No out-of-the-way incursion! (6)
22 It’s the very reverse of a bit of
malevolence! (4)
24 An element of rust protection (3)
25 Seemed intimidated by female
wild deer (7)
26 It’s power that gives an
aircraft height (5)
27 Discuss the toss? (5)
28 Stuff that makes a bad stain (5)
29 A handy skill? (7)
30 Prepares or cooks up new diets (5)
31 Sing high in the Alps? (5)
DOWN
2 Watch that horse! (6)
3 A change of rod (6)
4 Rested for one short day (3)
5 Absolute hush, always (5)
6 Any one of certain trees, possibly
including pine (7)
7 School of Suetonius (4)
8 Quite at home at the crease (3,3)
12 Used a certain machine for
destroying weeds (5)
13 Going without a word that’s
understood (5)
14 Not the hiker’s favourite fruit (5)
15 Officer of the crown (5)
16 Cried upon finding me married (5)
18 Something afoot at an age that’s
destructive (5)
19 Defoe and Boone, say, or
maybe Paul (7)
21 As a hunter, he gave some
animals stick! (6)
22 Played smoothly to leg out of the
middle of the bat? (6)
23 City of wet streets (6)
25 A rich place of relaxation (5)
26 It just has to be used in winemaking (4)
28 To turn up with this is pushy (3)
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