TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE
1. Ignominy (5)
6. Lift (5)
9. Tried (7)
10. Ink stains (5)
11. Wed (5)
12. Sparkle (5)
13. Eye-glass (7)
15. Mimic (3)
17. Due (4)
18. Meat pin (6)
19. Item of footwear (5) 20. Shriek (6)
22. Father (4)
24. Also (3)
25. Embedded (7)
26. Thrash (5)
27. Large house (5)
28. Compulsions (5)
29. Unfavourable (7) 30. Revises (5)
31. Sidled (5)
DOWN
2. Empty (6)
3. System (6)
4. Letter (3)
5. Tree (5)
6. Comments (7)
7. Old testament man
(4)
8. Craze (6)
12. Despondency (5)
13. Damp (5)
14. African (5)
15. Expect (5)
16. Went wrong (5)
18. Motionless (5)
19. Narrative songs (7) 21. Duplicate (6)
22. Trapped (6)
23. Draw back (6)
25. Heaps (5)
26. Even (4)
28. Application (3)
ACROSS
1. They’re served in many joints (5)
6. Gang with key members? (5)
9. Keep going to make an offer? (4,3)
10. It’s often under the hammer (5)
11. Uncle with my name! (5)
12. Whence to telephone that two are out for a duck (5) 13. Perhaps lofty requirements for the reception (7)
15. A West End number? (3)
17. Cricket garment (4)
18. She gives way to Nora (6)
19. Sound results of good casting (5)
20. Has a harmful effect on royal poetry (6)
22. It’s enjoyed by many with deformed feet (4)
24. He’s one from St Helens (3)
25. Hoped to mount a dangerous creature for a wild ride
(7)
26. It’s felt when there’s a squeeze on (5)
27. Hero figure in biblical times (5)
28. Is such beef needlessly tough? (5)
29. One having an L of a time in car? (7)
30. Fifty female in one place (5)
31. Nice people, not cheap (5)
2. This composure sounds easy to grasp (6) 3. Princely forename (6)
4. A sunny note (3)
5. Farewell possibly said out of love (5) 6. Busies oneself in the old fashion (7) 7. State a hut may be in (4)
8. A curve in a road (6)
12. Moody yet colourful music (5)
13. Michael, a bit of a spellbinder (5)
14. Tear ahead up North (5)
15. A tug by a bridge? (5)
16. Called one morning to find Ned out (5) 18. Cut Sophia Loren’s initial on a tree (5) 19. Also, Sid’s surrounded by a swarm (7) 21. Think very highly of Paul (6)
22. Think of a number (6)
23. Can’t he keep the bank’s secrets? (6)
25. One cereal that grows on a tree (5)
26. Foreign flag bearer (4)
27.Just the place for the rest of the night (3)
ACROSS: 1, Sheaf; 6, Aesop,; 9, Fantasy; 10, Swift; 11, South; 12, Snout; 13, Descend; 15, One; 17, Edit; 18, Seemed; 19, Epics; 20, Dreads; 22, Ante; 24, Sin; 25, Elapsed; 26, Ochre; 27, Donna; 28, Limps; 29, Uttered; 30, Price; 31, Aster.
2, Howled; 3, Affect; 4, Fat; 5, Stand; 6, Assumes; 7, Eyot; 8, Octane; 12, Snaps; 13, Deeds; 14, Siren; 15, Omens; 16, Edged; 18, Scale; 19, Educate; 21, Rigour; 22, Aphids; 23, Temple; 25, Erred; 26, Onus; 28, Lea.
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
1, Braid; 6, Right; 9, Goodies; 10, Sting; 11, Place; 12, Glare; 13, Misrule; 15, Sit; 17, Once; 18, Snatch; 19, Cabot; 20, T-rum-an; 22, PaRR; 24, Hut; 25, De-coyed; 26, Dinar; 27, SN-OUT; 28, Caper; 29, Laid out; 30, Drill; 31, Bo-Oth.
2, Retain; 3, Ignore; 4, Dog; 5, Odile; 6, Reprint; 7, Isle; 8, Hectic; 12, G-lean; 13, Mouth; 14, Scout; 15, S-tr-ay; 16, Third; 18, Sower; 19, Capital; 21, Runner; 22, Potato; 23, RE-sent; 25, Dandy; 26, Dull; 28, Cub(e).