TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Fill up with cooked teas (4) 3 One in take-off of street criminal (8) 9 Action regularly repeated on stage (7) 10 Go and find some time off (5) 11 Phrase at funeral between two cricket competitions (5,2,5) 13 They’re dying out from membership (6) 15 Complaint of bird that’s often shot at! (6) 17 Establish the truth of being battered in a bust state (12) 20 Detect ion equipment can go up and down (5) 21 He can foresee a gain, we hear (7) 22 It’s stubborn for every piece of poetry (8) 23 A burden carried by America (4)

DOWN

1 Flag for party throwers (8) 2 It’s not easy for a ruffian (5) 4 Rover needs time to jump over Mr McDonald! (6) 5 Picture in book is an example (12) 6 It’s flat at the top, that’s plain (7) 7 Eggs in lines, we are told (4) 8 Twelfth man’s top kind of price (5,7) 12 Men going in met outsize souvenirs (8) 14 Move daring, we are told, with a big rock (7) 16 Put us at back of tents in university area (6) 18 Very pale like chicken (5) 19 Cover distorted by warp (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Satisfy fully (4) 3 Paint remover (8) 9 A set sequence of dance steps (7) 10 Abandon (5) 11 Phrase at a funeral (5,2,5) 13 Dying coals (6) 15 Game bird (6) 17 To establish as genuine (12) 20 Device for detecting aircraft (5) 21 A seer (7) 22 Depraved (8) 23 Responsibility (4)

DOWN

1 Long narrow ribbon of paper (8) 2 Strong, durable (5) 4 Famous South African comedian, . . . Noah(6) 5 Picture accompanying text (12) 6 Level area of raised land (7) 7 Fish eggs (4) 8 Twelfth man (5,7) 12 Reminders of past events (8) 14 Large rock (7) 16 Grounds of university (6) 18 Pale and wan (5) 19 Cover gift in paper (4)