DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

1 Sphere (5)

6 Thaws (5)

9 Card game (3,4)

10 Indian dish (5)

11 Approaches (5)

12 Lustre (5)

13 Plant (7)

15 Joke (3)

17 Boy’s name (4)

18 Character (6)

19 Trite (5)

20 Newspaper boss (6)

22 Slender (4)

24 Managed (3)

25 Debilitates (7)

26 Fear (5)

27 Work dough (5)

28 Lukewarm (5)

29 Tutor (7)

30 Bury (5)

31 Pallid (5)

DOWN

2 Wealthy (6)

3 Lowest part (6)

4 Biblical priest (3)

5 US city (5)

6 Inorganic matter (7)

7 Paradise (4)

8 Deposit on the

teeth (6)

12 Musical

instrument (5)

13 Maker of bread (5)

14 Street urchin (5)

15 Cunning (5)

16 Microbes (5)

18 Nude (5)

19 Lodger (7)

21 Become

apparent (4,2)

22 Winter sportsmen (6)

23 Provoke (6)

25 Spectate (5)

26 Fruit (4)

28 Beverage (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Discomfit seaman Wood (5)

6 Not even stylishly! (5)

9 It’s polite to include nothing in rudely

brief style (7)

10 To the likes of Billy Bunter, it was an

imposition! (5)

11 Obligations best dealt with by the

deputy-head (5)

12 Writings that flow like rivers? (5)

13 Uncle’s place (selling music?) (3,4)

15 Favourite trumpet piece (3)

17 He has both love and money in poor

accommodation (4)

18 Pious emperor and dramatist (6)

19 The cold leg, perhaps, I had (5)

20 Easter problem? (6)

22 She stutters like Mimi (4)

24 Like some schooldays of the past (3)

25 Crafty enough to make Ian an MP? (7)

26 Was fishy? (5)

27 Violinist’s big sister? (5)

28 Is said to be permissive with

Latvians (5)

29 It’s manoeuvred best in a

French port (7)

30 Such prosperous days, my pal made

possible (5)

31 You can have a ‘jump’ one, of

course (5)

DOWN

2 Kind of curtain chewed up by

a panda? (6)

3 Northern dialect most Scots use (6)

4 How some like it, weather-wise (3)

5 Look exhausted as you fall out of

the ring! (5)

6 The game of sorting odd mail (3,4)

7 They can help make a muddy estuary a

bit colourful! (4)

8 Untidy little pigs! (6)

12 Ability to develop a certain amount

of prowess (5)

13 A graphic picture (5)

14 Ask earnestly for piano wire (5)

15 French soccer star, not really small (5)

16 It stimulates high speed, I see (5)

18 Did terrible toil, on the quiet, get him

his wings? (5)

19 Land of the man in grey, perhaps (7)

21 Name an unusually live artist (6)

22 It’s best if returning home (6)

23 One doing a more appropriate job? (6)

25 It’s clear the party leader had

been lying (5)

26 Severely criticise the chap round the

corner (4)

28 Harlesden man? (3)