DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Lure (5)

6 Phase (5)

9 Italian food (7)

10 Jeans fabric (5)

11 Splendour (5)

12 Hoodwinks (5)

13 Gives up work (7)

15 Favourite (3)

17 Soon (4)

18 Narrator (6)

19 Skinflint (5)

20 Introduce

gradually (6)

22 Step (4)

24 Speck (3)

25 Bullfighter (7)

26 Stinking (5)

27 Alcoholic drink (5)

28 Distress signal (5)

29 Discreet (7)

30 Gem (5)

31 Titles (5)

DOWN

2 Number (6)

3 Source (6)

4 Sweet potato (3)

5 Take away (5)

6 Overnight train (7)

7 Twitches (4)

8 Pointed beard (6)

12 Satan (5)

13 Quick (5)

14 Browned bread (5)

15 Appeal humbly (5)

16 One who

perseveres (5)

18 Lukewarm (5)

19 Inorganic matter (7)

21 Beginner (6)

22 Spanish dish (6)

23 Vulgar (6)

25 Ski slope (5)

26 Outdoor event (4)

28 Merriment (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Goes with fruit, but you can eat

it anyway (5)

6 Figure a complaint to be unspecific (5)

9 Is it growing to be a bit of a beast? (7)

10 He will be prepared for a venture (5)

11 Scorches right among the waves! (5)

12 Nominally, he has only half a

life at 59! (5)

13 Seems to provide various papers with

an article (7)

15 Salad ingredient at reduced cost? (3)

17 Five out of seven will be spotted (4)

18 Hustle around playing detective (6)

19 Displeased with the tarty

appearance (5)

20 Motorist’s club? (6)

22 Manner of making many points (4)

24 Creature smaller than the elephant,

obviously (3)

25 Island of irrational traumas (7)

26 A blow to the side (5)

27 But this officer cannot

necessarily fly (5)

28 Being effervescent, apt to hiss a bit (5)

29 Can such life be spoilt by getting out

of line? (7)

30 A flowery pet name (5)

31 Resin on my royal right hand! (5)

DOWN

2 Instructions to cook (6)

3 Some vacuous fellows show

shrewdness! (6)

4 The point of a website? (3)

5 Of land, one maybe gets less

separate pieces (5)

6 As you can see, Violet gets

Sybil upset (7)

7 Top in geometry (4)

8 Raise in the garden, maybe

as weeds (6)

12 Good man, but he only has a warm

heart on one day (5)

13 It may be said, note, for the ears of the

audience (5)

14 By the Italian, it’s seen as danger (5)

15 An old army measure? (5)

16 Has no translation in an African

language (5)

18 Strong drink! (5)

19 In performance, you can make

it clear (7)

21 Be very scornful about terrible evil (6)

22 Illness a youth gets in May (6)

23 With which to rub away (6)

25 Prop up a broken-down horse (5)

26 Her Italian is capital! (4)

28 Valuable sausage-making

ingredient (3)