DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Beast (5)

6 Dark beer (5)

9 Results (7)

10 Representative (5)

11 Assemble (5)

12 Thespian (5)

13 Booth (7)

15 Rug (3)

17 Man’s name (4)

18 Ten years (6)

19 Urns (5)

20 Elicits (6)

22 Strand (4)

24 Groove (3)

25 Female voice (7)

26 Suspicious (5)

27 Eyes up (5)

28 Anaesthetic (5)

29 Torment (7)

30 Colour (5)

31 Valuable thing (5)

DOWN

2 Highly seasoned stew (6)

3 Sport (6)

4 Newt (3)

5 Therefore (5)

6 Caresses (7)

7 Former Russian emperor (4)

8 Unburden (6)

12 Assumed name (5)

13 Lid (5)

14 Intolerant person (5)

15 Criminal organisation (5)

16 Musical speed (5)

18 Lure (5)

19 Deer meat (7)

21 Crude (6)

22 Pens (6)

23 Expel from the nose (6)

25 Closes (5)

26 Outdoor event (4)

28 Epoch (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 One wandering right across (5)

6 He’ll drive a vehicle past (5)

9 Practical nature of curios to a novice (7)

10 On screen, a girl has to compose an ode (5)

11 In between sunshine, it’s wet (5)

12 It’s restful for a singer at midmorning (5)

13 Colonist acting as arbiter? (7)

15 She’s back in the team (3)

17 Running amok with it involves risk (4)

18 Where it’s very nice to take friends out dancing (6)

19 Inconsiderate and crafty when about to turn right? (5)

20 Performer of an early composition for the piano (6)

22 In the field, it’s a credit and an eye-opener (4)

24 Increasing amount of crime (3)

25 A hurling player? (7)

26 Sent a communist to the West Indies (5)

27 Container for beer in tins out East (5)

28 Place among the supper things (5)

29 Formally recognised by Saul, perhaps, and Ted (7)

30 What a rider may get after falling in the water jump (5)

31 Familiar name for the course taken by a current (5)

DOWN

2 He joins a girl at the far end (6)

3 They happen to be key openings (6)

4 Diminished capital, formerly (3)

5 May creak, but it’s got a sound look (5)

6 Is rooted to the spot when the automobile’s absent (7)

7 He appears in real anguish (4)

8 It can be grown with love in a cracked basin (6)

12 Hesitate to be unreasonably rude about James Bond’s boss (5)

13 Ignores what may be full of rubbish (5)

14 Great man’s expression of thanks in

the box (5)

15 Month of subtle charm (5)

16 There’s one in Surrey, also in the Sherwood forest (5)

18 Gave about a pound for something worn (5)

19 A study group made up of marines (7)

21 Innovator who catalogued antiseptics? (6)

22 Agree to a current grant? (6)

23 Having chopped trees a lot, took a break (6)

25 Stimulate to go higher! (3,2)

26 In certain ways, I’m shrewd (4)

28 The proverbial sword-beater! (3)

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