TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Reel (5)
6 Audibly (5)
9 Italian food dish (7) 10 Fanatical (5) 11 Long claw (5) 12 Stitched (5) 13 Grave (7)
15 Hole (3)
17 Metal (4)
18 Seem (6) 19 Bed-cover (5)
20 Ill in bed (4,2) 22 Fighting force (4) 24 Longing (3) 25 Caresses (7) 26 Evidence (5) 27 Custom (5) 28 Singlets (5) 29 Antarctic creature
(7)
30 Lavish meal (5) 31 Coral island (5)
DOWN
2 Earnest request (6) 3 Source (6)
4 Cover (3)
5 Memoranda (5) 6 Endeavour (7)
7 Burden (4)
8 Ideal place (6)
12 Dawn (3-2)
13 Foolish (5)
14 Bird (5)
15 Precious stone (5) 16 Salvers (5) 18 Stand-offish (5) 19 Musical group (7) 21 Make gassy (6) 22 Pro-Christmas period
(6)
23 Of the mind (6)
25 Make counterfeit money
(5)
26 Fruit seeds (4)
28 By way of (3)
ACROSS
1 Fight over a remnant? (5)
6 Tastefully impertinent? (5)
9 Low pay, but at least enabling you to eat (7) 10 Took the rest of the pelts to be sorted (5) 11 Room for a race, I see (5)
12 Crikey, soldier, it’s a dog! (5)
13 Opened a lid, somehow for Ted (7)
15 Seat of a type women use (3)
17 Bring up the backward (4)
18 Fish out an object of reverence (6)
19 Freer from fears, possibly (5)
20 Best fowler, maybe (6)
22 Handy, also a little dexterous with the feet! (4) 24 Beat from an inconvenient angle (3)
25 A dream I have to be reverent about (7)
26 Has it handlebar horns? (5)
27 Many a wicked spirit (5)
28 For her, a jewellery item is more costly (3,2) 29 Lose hope of getting wildly praised (7)
30 Boy absolute (5)
31 Run out of the safe! (5)
DOWN
2 Coal miner’s dog? (6)
3 Seem a very quiet listener (6)
4 Favourite rope-trick feature (3)
5 Old-fashioned hair-net (5)
6 Behave drunkenly at the sort of party that upsets
Reg (7)
7 Where, in Italy, to get a bit of pasting (4)
8 The misdeeds of many a misguided miser (6) 12 Ed’s in the car in the wood (5)
13 Go along with many a crack (5)
14 Provide one poem over (3,2)
15 Fishy little gambler? (5)
16 Pale as Cliff ’s place (5)
18 It maybe scarlet, or yellow, etc (5)
19 One who comes to stay (7)
21 Bemoan the fact that men are taken in (6)
22 The wish of a chap with strong feeling (6) 23 Think of a number (6)
25 Cuts with a spear (5)
26 Swagger team? (4)
28 Something hard to find in fruit! (3)
EASY PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Crows; 6, Rusty; 9, Ripples; 10, Plait; 11, Ferry; 12, Tears; 13, Pesters; 15, Tee; 17, Asks; 18, Rivets; 19, Aspen; 20, Treats; 22, Rose; 24, Yea; 25, Sprints; 26, Rates; 27, Relic; 28, Leers; 29, Skipper; 30, Flees; 31, Aster.
DOWN: 2, Relies; 3, Wrists; 4, Sit; 5, Spies; 6, Refrain; 7, Uses; 8, Turrets; 12, Tress; 13, Pasty; 14, Skies; 15, Tenon; 16, Ashes; 18, Reaps; 19, Attacks; 21, Reveal; 22, Riders; 23, Starve; 25, Seeps; 26, Rise; 28, Lea.
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Loops; 6, S-pit-E; 9, Revival; 10, Co-mict; 11, Booms; 12, Skirt; 13, Streak; 15, Mod; 17, Char; 18, In time; 19, Flora; 20, Retail; 22, Silo; 24, (blow) Fly; 25, Snowmen; 26, Paris; 27, Avail; 28, Tr-eat; 29, Elected; 30, Angry; 31, A-Scot.
DOWN: 2, On oath; 3, Primer; 4, Sec; 5, Milky; 6, Sabrina; 7, Plot; 8, Tom-tom; 12, Ski-LL; 13, Scar-f; 14, Ra-TT-y; 15, Min-I’m; 16, Devon; 18, Irons; 19, Fin-ally; 21, Eleven; 22, Swords; 23, Lega-to; 25, Since; 26, Pie-R; 28, Tea.