TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Animal disease (5) 6 Started in alarm (5) 9 Greed (7)
10 Fruit (5)
11 Type of race (5) 12 Material (5) 13 Vaporous (7) 15 Morning moisture (3) 17 Military force (4) 18 Hinder (6) 19 Obligations (5) 20 Approached (6) 22 Chestnut husk (4) 24 Pitch (3)
25 Covered with linen
(7)
26 Foggy (5)
27 Sacked (5) 28 Marvellous (5) 29 Takes away (7) 30 Urged (5)
31 Celtic language (5)
DOWN
2 Become visible (6) 3 Ship’s kitchen (6) 4 Day before (3)
5 Black birds (5) 6 Shrieks (7)
7 Take notice (4) 8 Escaped from (6) 12 Made harmonious (5) 13 Haggard (5)
14 Daub (5)
15 First appearance (5) 16 Strange (5) 18 Irritating (5)
19 Settled (7)
21 Relaxing (6) 22 Perplex (6) 23 Insurgents (6) 25 Razor sharpener (5) 26 Lake (4)
28 Embroider (3)
ACROSS
1 Saintly annual visitor (5)
6 Arrest Ruth(5)
9 Reveal that a chap may get run out (7) 10 Tory’s tale (5)
11 Search and rob of a banger (5)
12 Subject of calculation, in brief (5) 13 Country where the rain varies in total (7) 15 Character of an ace? (3)
17 Support for a piano! (4)
18 The smart thing to grow (6)
19 Long fellows? (5)
20 A fatal thing to wear? (6)
22 Eliminate, we gather (4)
24 To do so takes a bit of beating (3) 25 Difficulties with abrasives? (7)
26 Animals in reserve (5)
27 A sample of state mismanagement (5) 28 Just look at this room! (5)
29 Club magazine (7)
30 Couples from Paris (5)
31 Fred’s drink (5)
DOWN
2 King for half a year and one short day (6)
3 Watch it grow! (6)
4 Some, but less than many (3)
5 James, a fellow to beat (5)
6 One isn’t to say it (7)
7 She opens up when it gets dark (4)
8 Just the team to sell some tickets? (6)
12 Officer in chief (5)
13 Room to shake capes (5)
14 He’s automatically efficient (5)
15 Is defence such a job? (3,2)
16 Strips and goes back to sleep (5)
18 Quick meal mostly from cans (5)
19 Fools making leers about a saint (7)
21 Smoky city (5)
22 They can make much clatter with their hooves (6) 23 First thing to read? (6)
25 Prison officer’s wages (5)
26 A leader in the arts (4)
28 One foolish enough to weaken? (3)
EASY PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Spark; 6, Aural; 9, Heavens; 10, Ashen; 11, Get up; 12, Riled; 13, Refused; 15, Wet; 17, Odes; 18, Deride; 19, Weird; 20, Master; 22, Bead; 24, Yet; 25, Affords; 26, Start; 27, Lithe; 28, Snort; 29, Ordered; 30, Clown; 31, Aside.
DOWN: 2, Passed; 3, Rhesus; 4, Ken; 5, Avoid; 6, Angered; 7, Used; 8, Amused; 12, Refer; 13, Roomy; 14, Feast; 15, Wiser; 16, Tends; 18, Draft; 19, Western; 21, Aerial; 22, Bounds; 23, Adored; 25, Armed; 26, Show; 28, Sea.
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Staff; 6, Stops; 9, Romance; 10, Pixie; 11, Raise; 12, Angel; 13, Pat-Hans; 15, Hum; 17, Unit; 18, Sc-hem-e; 19, Dinah; 20, Posers; 22, Sole; 24, Sty; 25, Knitted; 26, Sabot; 27, Veno-M; 28, Sa-L-ve; 29, Fell out; 30, Oscar; 31, Ba.RR-y.
DOWN: 2, Taiwan; 3, Fright; 4, Fo-E; 5, Mains; 6, Screech; 7, Teal; 8, Possum; 12, Ann-is; 13, Pu-Mps; 14, Tips-y; 15, He-lot; 16, Me-Tad; 18, Saint; 19, Dreamer; 21, Others; 22, Strata; 23, Leaver; 25, Koala; 26, Sofa; 28, Sub.