Sudoku challenge Quick crossword

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers from 1 to 9. There’s no maths involved – solve the puzzle with reason and logic!

Gentle

Moderate Across

1 Jinx (5)

6 Respond (5) 9 Excessively polite (7) 10 Guide (5) 11 Mother-of-pearl (5) 12 Warning device (5) 13 Of the stomach (7) 15 Cooker top (3) 17 Birds (4)

18 Disprove (6) 19 Cooks pies (5)

20 Of the teeth (6) 22 Lose colour (4) 24 Droop (3) 25 Furniture item (7) 26 Friendly, informally (5) 27 To faint (5)

28 Sucrose (5) 29 Disgraceful action (7) 30 Concur (5) 31 Labyrinths (5)

Down

2 Ban (6) 3 Representatives (6) 4 That woman (3) 5 Garret (5)

6 Goes back on one's

word (7) 7 Style, vigour (4) 8 Vegetable (6) 12 Rope-making fibre (5) 13 Merchandise (5) 14 Colloquial language (5) 15 Of mankind (5) 16 Brimless cap (5)

18 Pass on (5) 19 Equilibrium (7)

21 Insect (6)

22 Leg bone (6)

23 Ten years (6)

25 Genetic copy (5)

26 Sit for an artist (4) 28 Boy's name (3)