YOU (South Africa)

TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Members’ premises to store golf equipment? (9) 7 A nut in physical education has the power to (5) 9 Famous temptress has a hat with a rim that’s fancy (4,4) 11 Save about pound for healing ointment (5) 12 Holiday’s over but doesn’t go to bed (5,2) 14 Chimney went into the air, it’s said (4) 15 Manipulate a source of oil (3) 17 The woman in a stylish establishm­ent (3) 18 Oliver’s in a rush (4) 20 Bad place to a smelly animal (7) 23 Tough-looking Cassidy in the film (5) 24 Everybody present will be mentally alert (3,5) 26 Confess now to change at the top (3,2) 27 Take the place of good tennis player, we are told (9)

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2 Restrict a top speed (5) 3 Race to burst in to buy a sandwich (5) 4 Country involved in accusation­s (3) 5 It peels off from letter (7) 6 Textile next to boards not handled enough? (9) 8 You can’t get through it for Frenchmen (3,2,3) 10 The catch in a vestibule, so it’s said (4) 12 Does it contain fight memories? (9) 13 How the French say cheese? (2,6) 16 Terribly sharp after physical exercise (7) 19 Joint problem comes to nothing in one’s insides (4) 21 Starting price in races never rises (5) 22 Leading and finding a winning distance (5) 25 More than one will meet lovingly today (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 19th hole (9) 7 Kind of nut (5) 9 Dutch wartime temptress (4,4) 11 Comfort or appease (5) 12 Does not go to bed (5,2) 14 Pipe in chimney (4) 15 Oil platform (3) 17 Female pronoun (3) 18 Water plant (4) 20 Animal like weasel (7) 23 Markedly masculine (5) 24 Of normal intelligen­ce (3,5) 26 Admit (3,2) 27 Take the place of (9)

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2 Boundary (5) 3 Sandwich, eg (5) 4 America (3) 5 A letter (7) 6 Pad under a carpet (9) 8 Dead end (3,2,3) 10 Transport in a vehicle (4) 12 Collection of cuttings (9) 13 Cooked while covered in breadcrumb­s (2,6) 16 Maybe (7) 19 Painful inflammato­ry disease (4) 21 Betting odds (5) 22 Out in front (5) 25 Cheek (3)

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