TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Rough sketch (5) 6 Check accounts (5) 9 Garden retreats (7) 10 Frightening (5) 11 Recounts (5)
12 Icy cold (5) 13 Protected (7)
15 A person (3)
17 Dry (4)
18 Is upright (6)
19 Fire remains (5) 20 Make possible (6) 22 Unconscious state (4) 24 Lubricant (3) 25 Persuasive flattery (7) 26 Is sullen (5)
27 Begin again (5) 28 Wrench (5) 29 Experienced again (7) 30 Horse (5)
31 Stage remark (5)
DOWN
2 Clergyman (6) 3 Cultivated (6)
4 Make an attempt (3) 5 Managed (5) 6 Painters(7) 7 Second-hand (4) 8 Waterbound landmass
(6)
12 Birds (5)
13 Carved gem (5) 14 Essential (5) 15 Vegetable (5) 16 Written composition
(5)
18 Sea-creatures (5) 19 Permitted (7)
21 Most pleasant (6) 22 Masses of people (6) 23 Bungled (6)
25 Start (5)
26 Lake (4)
28 Beverage (3)
ACROSS
1 Many a rustic fowl (5)
6 You solvers get cross with them(5)
9 Cobbler betting at No. 11? (4,3)
10 Set to look imposing, perhaps (5)
11 Rule in Niger? (5)
12 Top alloy? (5)
13 They may have a harrowing time (7) 15 Margin of the moon (3)
17 The burden on the Americans? (4) 18 Playwright or half-pint emperor (6) 19 Winning by some pontoon system? (2,3) 20 Individual chain (6)
22 Dived, American style (4)
24 Song of the ordinary man (3)
25 Instead becomes discoloured (7)
26 Breaks into pictures(5)
27 Shoulder no responsibility! (5)
28 I’m going to the Ministry with a note (5) 29 Responded by being created anew (7)
30 They grow in the centre estate (5)
31 Further bit of help in staircase design (5)
DOWN
2 He takes a bird round with a broken arm (6) 3 They’re staked for many purposes (6)
4 Letter from a lady (3)
5 As seen by a stunned audience? (5)
6 Vessel, the fruit of conflict (7)
7 Honest individuals? (4)
8 It cuts in rugged fashion (6)
12 It’s home and may be burnt (5)
13 Like a point of interest in photography, etc (5) 14 One place for sport (5)
15 Actually it has more than one feather on! (5) 16 Changed places? (5)
18 Openings for strop makers? (5)
19 Tasteful colours (7)
21 A soap product! (6)
22 Do the splits with mathematical precision (6) 23 Victorious day at one resort or another (6) 25 Wildly paces the room (5)
26 An “agreement” one possibly rues (4)
28 Mere pawns in the game, normally? (3)
EASY PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Crust; 6, Treat; 9, Torture; 10, Sport; 11, Antic; 12, Rigid; 13, Adopted; 15, She; 17, Isle; 18, Counts; 19, Amber; 20, Lovers; 22, Area; 24, Eve; 25, Slavery; 26, Tents; 27, Arras; 28, Anise; 29, Staring; 30, Books; 31, Tends.
DOWN: 2, Rapids; 3, Stripe; 4, Tot; 5, Staid; 6, Traitor; 7, Rend; 8, Alight; 12, Reams; 13, Aisle; 14, Olive; 15, Snore; 16, Essay; 18, Cells; 19, Arrests; 21, Overdo; 22, Avenge; 23, Erased; 25, Storm; 26, Task; 28, Ant.
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS: 1, Coast; 6, Diver; 9, Pa-lad-in; 10, Steer; 11, Scots; 12, Hitch (cock); 13, Muscles; 15, Sip; 17, Arch; 18, Triple; 19, B-raw-n; 20, Chalet; 22, Some; 24, Hop; 25, Si-Mp-ler; 26, Blow-N; 27, Came-O; 28, Ba-si-l; 29, S-win-don; 30, Heats; 31, Aglo-W.
DOWN: 2, On to-Ur; 3, Speech; 4, Tar; 5, Paris; 6, Discern; 7, Inch; 8, Entail; 12, Heart; 13, Match; 14, Scrap; 15, Spool; 16, Peter; 18, Twain; 19, Bellows; 21, Horace; 22, S-prang; 23, Medico; 25, Swing; 26, Be-St; 28, Boa.