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: Peg put on rotten sweet (6)

easy clues

ACROSS

8 Coloured parts of the eyes (6) 9 Benjamin ___, Victorian PM (8)

11 Calculate, reckon (6,3) 12 Byword (5)

13 Multisided shape (7) 15 Capital city of Kenya (7) 17 Abundant (praise) (7) 18 Aircraft’s wing flap (7) 20 Crisp lettuce (7)

23 Annually published list of events (7)

25 Childminder (5) 27 Emblematic carved post (5,4)

29 Eavesdropped (8)

30 Behave playfully (6)

DOWN

1 Chilled confection with crushed biscuits, raisins and chocolate (6)

2 Chaste (8)

3 At hand (4)

4 Belgian cartoon character (6) 5 District (4) 6 Cycle‑boat (6)

7 From Lagos, perhaps (8) 10 Downstairs room (6) 14 Farmyard bird (5)

16 Koran readers’ religion (5) 17 Amiable (8)

18 Changes (6)

19 By chance (8)

21 ___ Hemingway, author (6) 22 Channel at the side of the street (6)

24 Browbeat (6)

26 ___ Saint Laurent, designer (4)

28 Fourth planet from the Sun (4)

cryptic clues

ACROSS

8 One grows flowers (6) 9 English statesman died before one from Tel Aviv, maybe (8)

11 Come to understand there’s a number not at home (6,3)

12 Saw commercial era (5) 13 Figure twelve surrounds horse (7)

15 Wild boar in one

African city (7)

17 Seethe about orchestra being generous (7)

18 Splashed oil near wing flap (7)

20 Beg rice, cooked, for lettuce (7)

23 Medical man actually displays handbook (7)

25 1980s Wendy

Craig series of older relative (5)

27 Temple too misshapen for Native American emblem (5,4)

29 Has followed advice having lied about gun (8)

30 Cavort, returning part of pencil or fountain‑pen (6)

DOWN

1 Light meal taken at home after petty quarrel (6)

2 Chaste woman loses one pound (8)

3 Point to feature not far away (4)

4 Cartoon boy with two cans (6)

5 Region is part of the Far East (4)

6 Half flipped a long boat (6) 7 African in rage, in trouble (8)

10 Nothing in thrust is idle (6)

14 Bird goes unsteadily round the ring (5)

16 I criticise religion (5) 17 Welcoming a noncritical match (8)

18 Alters tap ads, changes to meet requirements (6)

19 Operated my old career by chance (8)

21 Man enters drunkenly (6) 22 Channel to flicker and fade (6)

24 Force to close bracket periodically (6)

26 Frenchman is OK when victory ’s held (4)

28 Ruins the planet (4)