DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Secret hoard (5)

6 Large animal (5)

9 Book of words (7)

10 Musical instrument (5)

11 Baffling question (5)

12 Warning device (5)

13 Small crown (7)

15 Favourite (3)

17 First man (4)

18 Time yet to come (6)

19 Court case (5)

20 Scolds (6)

22 Grain store (4)

24 Concealed (3)

25 Temporal (7)

26 Closely fitting (5)

27 American state (5)

28 Bit (5)

29 Public sale (7)

30 Increases in size (5)

31 Trivial (5)

DOWN

2 Three-legged stand (6)

3 Skiing race (6)

4 That woman (3)

5 Restrict (5)

6 Optimistic (7)

7 Privy to (2,2)

8 Favour (6)

12 Scorches (5)

13 Capture (5)

14 Quick (5)

15 Student (5)

16 Male voice (5)

18 Aspect (5)

19 Monotonous (7)

21 Hamper (6)

22 Lying face upwards (6)

23 Surgical knife (6)

25 Closes (5)

26 Melt (4)

28 Fizzy drink (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Choose from a selection (5)

6 Ring Eleanor at the King’s Head (5)

9 On which to have a heated conversation? (7)

10 Uncle Tom’s taxi garage? (5)

11 I scold when angry (5)

12 You may have seen the last one in Paris (5)

13 Not the place for old wine (7)

15 Tenpenny ballpoint? (3)

17 Looking pale, like Henry when disheartened (4)

18 Are astronomers thus eyed? (6)

19 Walks up or down, perhaps (5)

20 Points to a source of wood for a dish (6)

22 It’s a tricky game (4)

24 Make sure your eyes are open (3)

25 It’s of all-round satisfaction to a baseballer (4,3)

26 Such infections get right into a little bottle (5)

27 Swimming school (5)

28 Did she sing saucily? (5)

29 Faultless service around the country is an offence! (7)

30 Animal munching a tuber (5)

31 A name in towelling (5)

DOWN

2 Abandons a slovenly slave out East! (6)

3 Where the carpenter can get a quick meal (6)

4 Actually not less than a stone (3)

5 The angler likes to see it sink (5)

6 Horsy types on board (7)

7 Emperor on the way to one part of Rome (4)

8 It shows the landlord’s literal! (6)

12 The rhyme’s right, but it’s banal (5)

13 Various means of identification (5)

14 We’re out to knock what’s

lacking colour (5)

15 A good man always coming first (5)

16 Thread that only breaks when the end’s broken off (5)

18 It can hold film in loops (5)

19 Where the barber got his oranges? (7)

21 Lower down there, perhaps, at the end

of the garden (6)

22 Being always in extremes of solitude, is hard (6)

23 Move clumsily or woodenly (6)

25 Hang around with a hotheaded relative (5)

26 Great but less than devastating (4)

28 Joined me on the tee (3)