CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES

ACROSS

1 Faith (5)

6 Deadly (5)

9 Main city (7) 10 Weasel-like animal (5) 11 Minimum (5) 12 Achievements (5) 13 Young hare (7) 15 Body of water (3) 17 Dry (4)

18 Commands (6) 19 Scorches (5) 20 Rubber (6) 22 Domesticated (4) 24 Zero (3)

25 Student (7)

26 Entire range (5) 27 Small object (5) 28 Happen (5) 29 Attribute (7) 30 Gemstone (5) 31 Treatise (5)

DOWN

2 Cad (6)

3 Climbed (6) 4 Rubbish (3) 5 Metal fastener (5) 6 Hesitates (7) 7 Beers (4)

8 Reply (6) 12 Thighbone (5) 13 Loaded (5) 14 Essential (5) 15 Type of chair (5) 16 Flower (5) 18 Beginning (5) 19 Since (7) 21 Coming up (6) 22 Vestiges (6) 23 Gorgon (6) 25 Money (5)

26 Farm animal (4) 28 Honour (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Cheat at “9 Across”?

(5)

6 There’s nothing in cutting up a chop for the dog (5)

9 A game of bridge? (7) 10 Too much interest is

taken in this (5) 11 Draws up in reverse as

we leave Wells (5) 12 Foul journeys? (5) 13 They’re spent going north from the Pennines (7)

15 Faint figures (3) 17 Having made it, one’s

left (4)

18 Gadget to rid of a

fault? (6)

19 It’s not the seconds that rush madly round the ring! (5) 20 Frederic had a bit of a jaw about his music (6)

22 Something good for a

boy to burst into? (4) 24 A layer of papiermache, normally (3) 25 Animal providing man

with a sort of shirt (7) 26 Material I mend

patchily! (5)

27 Source of entertainment or aid, possibly (5) 28 Father’s thanks for the

food (5)

29 Anciently a match for

Satan (7)

30 Solid figures? (5) 31 Stave off having to

pay out for a Rolls (5)

DOWN

2 Western county, one

fancies (6)

3 Prints wrongly, dash

it! (6)

4 Play Tolstoy finished (3) 5 Makes the coffee go

round (5)

6 A growing source of

sound food (7) 7 Responsibility for giving

a ring at sunrise (4) 8 One side of Glasgow

(6)

12 Being in joint partnership, figure ahead (5)

13 Sit and fish (5) 14 Nothing added by a

former president (5) 15 One knocked out with

a club? (5)

16 Unite in an emergency

(5)

18 Gem of a goal? (5) 19 Being ugly, gets out of sight about half an hour (7)

21 Messenger possibly heard going round a corner (6)

22 Ah, a woman out in

the desert! (6) 23 Something to wash down the ambrosia (6)

25 A little letter or note

(5)

26 Flavouring that makes

many unwell? (4) 28 Investment in energy

(3)