TWO £50 PRIZES
Prize crossword
For this puzzle we’ve provided two sets of clues, each giving the same answers. One set of clues is cryptic, one is quick. It’s a good way to hone your skills because it gives you two ways to crack the crossword! Once complete, the letters in the shaded squares, when read from top to bottom, left to right, will spell out a word – this is your prize answer. Write it on the entry coupon on page 88 and post it, email it or enter online. Two winners will be chosen randomly from all correct entries and whichever set of clues you follow, you have an equal chance of revealing the prize answer and winning!
Cryptic clues
1 Comment about former currency (6)
4 Truthful account by member of the clergy (8)
9 Father meets Father by a place of worship (6)
10 Company uses bins all over the place (8)
12 Heard river trickle (4)
13 Whisky connected with a European nation (5)
14 Tool held by head zealot (4)
17 Far-from-jolly tar sunk canoe at sea (12)
20 Outspoken genius rejected first appearance of one fictional scientist (12)
23 Youngster of acute energy (4) 24 Chuck half of that line (5)
25 Initially named old Assyrian holy man in the Bible (4)
28 Region of the US putting an elite force behind 25A’s project (8)
29 Flag of royal following British queen (6)
30 Cobblers having no feeling about fashion, ultimately (8)
31 Old flame to look after increase (6)
1 Rebuke swimmer after I was knocked off of pier backwards (8)
2 Edits amazing English publication (8)
3 Coarse strudel filling (4) 5 Alto heard to return note (12)
6 Munitions stores: part of the military (4)
7 Agrand finish tops a list of things to do (6)
8 Hesitate, following direction of festival (6)
11 After Tuesday, a liberal monarch oversees David Byrne’s musical group (7, 5)
15 Transport road vehicle by railway (5) 16 Hunt among antique stalls (5)
18 Dismiss study on snow leopard (8)
19 Secured and held job (8)
21 Reach —with thanks —into a tin (6)
22 Stream located atop wave (6)
26 Better to put this on a damaged net (4)
27 Fake union’s leader mentioned in communication (4)
Quick clues
1 Observation (6)
4 Factually precise (8)
9 Many-tiered pyramidal tower used as a temple (6)
10 Commercial operation (8)
12 Seep slowly (4)
13 Mediterranean island republic (5)
14 Bladed implement used for dressing timber (4)
17 Grumpy (12)
20 Mary Shelley novel (12)
23 Adolescent? (4)
24 Fling (5)
25 Biblical flood survivor (4)
28 Little Rock’s state (8)
29 Ensign, standard (6)
30 Balderdash (8)
31 Make longer (6)
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