TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 A miserable existence on the mat? (1,4,4) 7 Being manly gives some of them a choice (5) 9 Lion took off – investigate! (4,4) 11 A total has to agree (5) 12 Refer to fellows on it mistakenly (7) 14 Garden tools, we hear, to apply water (4) 15 Record that may be burnt? (3) 17 One in street has to find a seat (3) 18 A cross editor will be given the chop (4) 20 Track vehicle to bar and saloon (7) 23 Throw out some of the victims! (5) 24 Popular man entering dined freely (2,6) 26 They grow right into river (5) 27 Difficult sit DOWN 2 Five hundred elves, nearly, go digging (5) 3 Writer who enters into the spirit of the book? (5) 4 Travellers stop here in the north (3) 5 Great feeling caused by English proposal (7) 6 Ropey steel twisted into yarn (9) 8 You can’t get through it for Frenchmen (3,2,3) 10 One Tory in sacred painting (4) 12 First set from the creamery (4,5) 13 Not, for instance, a kind of film? (8) 16 Does he practise in a filling station? (7) 19 Hundred grow old in prison (4) 21 Jumps from point in circuits (5) 22 A duo and I create music (5) 25 Taunt to get you to work in garden (3) QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Miserable existence (1,4,4) 7 Strongly masculine (5) 9 Investigate (4,4) 11 To correspond (5) 12 To refer to (7) 14 Flexible pipe (4) 15 Detailed record (3) 17 Pose for portrait (3) 18 Dismissed employees (4) 20 Wheeled vehicle for a track (7) 23 Eject tenant (5) 24 Greatly desired (2,6) 26 Woody plants (5) 27 Tricky or difficult situation (5,4) DOWN 2 To rummage deep (5) 3 Spectre (5) 4 Tavern (3) 5 Any strong feeling (7) 6 Synthetic fabric (9) 8 Dead end (3,2,3) 10 Religious painting (4) 12 Baby’s set for chewing (4,5) 13 Preliminary photograph (8) 16 Kind of doctor (7) 19 Animal enclosure (4) 21 Jumps over (5) 22 Indicating hearing or sound (5) 25 Excavate (3)