crossword

Try our easy or cryptic clues – they both lead to the same answers. Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to form the answer. Clue: Strange story about English shellfish (6)

Easy clues

ACROSS

8 Boned piece of meat (6)

9 Display great relish (8)

11 Continually demanding (9)

12 Chute (5)

13 ___ tissue, cells storing fat (7)

15 Another name for German measles (7)

17 The Waste Land poet (1,1,5)

18 Slight cold (7)

20 Folktales (7)

23 Country east of

Poland (7)

25 Of liquid consistency (5) 27 Amount permitted (9) 29 Delighted (8)

30 Interiorpart (6)

DOWN

1 Egypt’s continent (6) 2 Exotic flavouring (8) 3 Opposite of ‘more’ (4) 4 Speedier (6)

5 Snake sound (4)

6 Beauty treatment (6) 7 Tea or coffee (8)

10 Blemish, fault (6)

14 Constellation also known as the Hunter (5)

16 Flatfish similar to a turbot (5)

17 Accept (8)

18 Delicate, understated (6) 19 Relating to scientific methods for solving crime (8)

21 Landed upper classes (6) 22 Roof worker (6)

24 Kebabstick (6)

26 Eggpart (4)

28 Conjurer’s stick (4)

cryptic clues

ACROSS

8 Remove bones or make it full, we hear? (6)

9 Drool over one vessel in sale (8)

11 Aim to catch little sister making demands (9)

12 Team going round face of Logan, slip (5)

13 ‘Fatty tissue?’ said Poe, confused (7)

15 Unhealthy allure about British disease (7)

17 Poet finds toilets out oforder (1,1,5)

18 Fellows in small river show sign of cold (7)

20 Member aims to create myths (7)

23 Real changes in public transport for the country (7)

25 Not set to organise city letters (5)

27 Sum apportioned for destroying a wall once (9)

29 Excited by stream in the back of beyond (8) 30 At home, team doing time (6)

DOWN

1 Where safari may be organised, but capital of Cameroon, not Sweden? (6) 2 The whole seasoning is Jamaica pepper (8)

3 Fewer found among sales staff (4)

4 Abstain from food with hesitation, more quickly (6) 5 Express disapproval at some of this song (4)

6 US spies in river for beauty treatment! (6)

7 Another drink when beer gave out (8)

10 Spot in desert (6)

14 Hunter of the stars? (5) 16 Excellent fish (5)

17 Put up with different role in gallery (8)

18 Bustle around, it’s implied (6)

19 Fir cones involved with such investigative science (8)

21 Posh blokes demanding information on rugby score (6)

22 Roofer on top of skyscraper at a future time (6)

24 Pin end of cloak in large drain (6)

26 Part of egg is burdensome restraint, we hear (4)

28 Stick with first conjunction (4)