CROSSWORD

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

EASY CLUES ACROSS

1 Legendary king (5) 6 Greek letter (5) 9 Cloth (7) 10 Suitably (5) 11 Complains (5) 12 Fruit (5) 13 Perplex (7) 15 Weep (3) 17 Road (4) 18 Meal (6) 19 Seraglio (5) 20 Cream cake (6) 22 House (4) 24 Golfer’s peg (3) 25 Capital of Iraq (7) 26 Started (5) 27 Paris underground (5) 28 Crows (5) 29 Sale (7) 30 Coagulates (5) 31 Coin (5)

DOWN

2 Antelope (6) 3 Ablaze (6) 4 Cunning (3) 5 Alphabetical list (5) 6 Propriety (7) 7 Vivacity (4) 8 Creep (6) 12 Tooth (5) 13 Armada (5) 14 Relative (5) 15 Rapidity (5) 16 Plait (5) 18 Chair (5) 19 Ugly (7) 21 Breakfast food (6) 22 Altar (6) 23 Girl (6) 25 Indian dish (5) 26 Unruly child (4) 28 Dance (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Military style jumpers (5) 6 A fat, soft clod (5) 9 Deputy ruler of men out East (7) 10 Fine new gear for the troop leader (5) 11 A flower came up (5) 12 Couples do it on the floor (5) 13 Woman or man can hold such office (7) 15 It’s a mistaken conclusion, you know (3) 17 Heavenly piece of wood at the pine centre (4) 18 Played smoothly to leg, maybe, out of the middle of the bat (6) 19 In one version, Peter Pan’s land (5) 20 Friendly yet strange idea about getting to buy off a bully (6) 22 To be so is agreeable (4) 24 At snooker, not a colour (3) 25 It’s in the clear, perhaps, for performance (7) 26 Has it handlebar horns? (5) 27 She can give one a hand-out (5) 28 Plant of historic interest on the moor (5) 29 Resident sharing a room with some citizens (7) 30 The man finishing his lager at the pub (5) 31 Sadie’s upset since not everyone can hear it (5)

DOWN

2 A part of Norfolk outside the UK! (6) 3 An oval isle in legend? (6) 4 What the opposition has to do in parliament (3) 5 Two little boys in botany (5) 6 He doesn’t have a permit to cook eggs! (7) 7 Sounds a liar, but worth a hearing (4) 8 His poetry must include a bit of prose! (6) 12 Showing age, like father around half term (5) 13 A big thing that may need to be stopped (5) 14 Produce or give up (5) 15 As slang, it’s finished (5) 16 Story bearing on wild love (5) 18 Left a woman at the air terminal bar (5) 19 Not one is to be found in there (7) 21 If foreign, is French (6) 22 Wailing women? (6) 23 Getting tormented is not smart (6) 25 Send money at the right time, maybe (5) 26 Regretful note from the marquis (4) 28 It has its holiday making side (3)