CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the easy or the cryptic clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Parrot type (5)

6 Amusing (5)

9 Spanish drink (7)

10 Accumulate (5)

11 Indications (5)

12 Backless seat (5)

13 Throb (7)

15 Fish (3)

17 Cupid (4)

18 Humans (6)

19 Abdomen (5)

20 Intelligent (6)

22 Land measure (4)

24 That woman (3)

25 Stifle (7)

26 Summarise (3,2)

27 Distinctive character (5)

28 Essential (5)

29 Plume (7)

30 Assumed name (5)

31 Belief (5)

DOWN

2 Protective suit (6)

3 Evaluate (6)

4 Used to be (3)

5 Gemstone (5)

6 Disregard orders (7)

7 Complain bitterly (4)

8 Beam over a door (6)

12 Guide (5)

13 Roost (5)

14 Defeated competitor (5)

15 Era (5)

16 Leprosy victim (5)

18 Chubby (5)

19 Confuses (7) 21 Edible seed (6)

22 Dress (6)

23 Discount (6)

25 A set (5)

26 Couch (4)

28 Animal doctor (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Gardener’s means of dislodging a worm out of the earth? (5)

6 Hundreds of scent manufacturers (5)

9 Notably lacking sharpness or flatness (7)

10 Toothy girl? (5)

11 All night refreshment? (5)

12 More than a cuppa! (5)

13 They afflict people much more than ague (7)

15 Supplied from the safe deposit (3)

17 Instrument used in early recordings (4)

18 To live with a goddess will only be bewildering! (6)

19 Believes one is in touch? (5)

20 The less bright learner is in worse disarray (6)

22 Leander had her love (4)

24 Derby, perhaps? (3)

25 To end the fight for a cause in criminal! (7)

26 Measure just about half of it (5)

27 Couldn’t you listen to him for a fiver? (5)

28 That homely forename (5)

29 Fish eater digesting plaice at mid-morning (7)

30 Horse with a saintly head (5)

31 Annoyed when infested with rodents? (5)

DOWN

2 Only embraces gym work, frankly (6)

3 Undertake to get into gear? (6)

4 Bright boy (3)

5 Units deployed in N. Africa (5)

6 Buildings requiring a hundred new slates (7)

7 She turns up in Northallerton (4)

8 They’re apt to have their variations (6)

12 Run out and look around for a tin opener (5)

13 Softer than velvet? That’s rich! (5)

14 Bit of jargon used on the third of October (5)

15 Too much juice will melt them (5)

16 He has some more in his own room, the devil! (5)

18 Shout very audibly at Tony? (5)

19 Always ate out when it was hot (7)

21 In being on loan, half the team have a moan (6)

22 Smoky city? (6)

23 Old Bill’s traditional name, formally (6)

25 Follow the transcript of the trial (5)

26 Show dissatisfaction with a bad poem (4)

28 A somewhat shocking drink? (3)