CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Perspire (5) 6 Banquet (5) 9 Outline (7) 10 Cut (5) 11 Tumbles (5) 12 Defeats (5) 13 Friendly (7) 15 Expert (3) 17 Fencing sword

(4)

18 Rot (6) 19 Merriment (5) 20 Steady (6) 22 Ring of light (4) 24 Devour (3) 25 Mentor (7) 26 Leaves out (5) 27 Backbone (5) 28 Proverb (5) 29 Derange (7) 30 Faith (5) 31 Access (5)

DOWN

2 Strike hard (6) 3 Agree (6) 4 Digit (3)

5 Alloy (5)

6 More distant

(7)

7 Cupid (4) 8 Comfort (6) 12 Wash (5) 13 Stop (5) 14 Took an exam

again (5) 15 Book of maps

(5)

16 Mistake (5) 18 Provides food

(5)

19 Merciful (7) 21 Interfere (6) 22 Concealed (6) 23 Accounts book

(6)

25 Garret (5) 26 Responsibility

(4)

28 Era (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 A town destroyed by a supreme deity (5)

6 American dog

(5)

9 Opposed to aristocracy and royalty? (7) 10 He flies a good amount, evidently (5) 11 Had a penchant for the field of the theatre? (5) 12 Pole in a ragged suit abroad (5) 13 Form of finance backed by Charles Dickens (7) 15 Meadow in an

arable area (3) 17 The girl one takes most risks with? (4) 18 Compulsive

producers? (6) 19 A major marine

body (5) 20 State of a famous building (6) 22 One-woman

opera (4) 24 Fishy fellow,

but bright (3) 25 Bird getting on with the cheese (7) 26 Keeps saints out of a building! (5) 27 Sam turns on good people in Africa (5) 28 Mendelssohn’s

cat (5) 29 Idly consuming ale brewed in the best manner (7) 30 Swell new source of oil (5)

31 Rosie’s willowy

form (5)

DOWN

2 A name for

duck offal (6) 3 They make no scar, though just one can be painful! (6)

4 It quite alters one’s meaning (3)

5 A no-good American fellow? (5) 6 Creature related to the zebra? (7) 7 Zero reserves

of minerals (4) 8 Run around in a

trance (6)

12 A moment of electric effect (5)

13 Its rider can’t

dismount (5) 14 Quick to describe the weather as cold (5)

15 Joe, let out to

run away (3,2) 16 A large waterfowl seen by a dam (5) 18 Standing upright, they start talking during mass (5)

19 No ordinary

bloomers (7) 21 Contrive to be

the boss (6) 22 Ways of

bowling (6) 23 A hundred-toone pay-out for being obedient (6)

25 Street light out

of place (5) 26 Take Lisa for a

boat trip (4) 28 For her, flogging would be excessive (3)