TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Military service in the field involving MP a GI can arrange (8) 4 Sort of melon for instance put back on getting round it (4) 8 It’s not even unpaired (3) 9 Horizontal position going to and fro (5) 10 Is crazy to return if mother

is beastly (3) 11 Funny calm one gets with

company (7) 12 Get one out to get a cold (5) 13 A yacht from LA is not a big

version of it (7-4) 17 Puzzling picture of the bruise

one left (5) 18 Red parrot-wrasse permitted

to be seen (7) 20 The paunch that starts

getting unusually tubby (3) 21 But a sandwich may be

square! (5) 22 Try to adapt to a Norse

deity (3) 23 A job is what a skilled person

needs (4) 24 Actor’s way of speaking may be recorded by the post office (8)

DOWN

1 Bend low here with the yachtsmen in Essex (6) 2 Computer device makes me do first mistake (5) 3 Paid a pound for the chairman’s hammer (5) 5 Flowering plant to tie a dog to (7) 6 Immature dragonflies, nereides and oreads (6) 7 Refuse to handle table on which teacher writes in chalk (10) 9 Dull result achieved after shortage (10) 14 The strawberry-tree in particular – but usually it’s shown (7) 15 Is cheerful on quitting South

Coast resort (6) 16 Being so stout is staggering,

in a sheep (6) 18 It may be the cause of

dressing (5) 19 Limber he set fire to first (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Time during which army keeps the field (8) 4 Type of small, green-skinned melon (4) 8 Uneven (3) 9 Straight, flat (5) 10 Embankment holding back

water (3) 11 Droll (7) 12 Seize after pursuit (5) 13 Wind-driven craft (7,4) 17 Puzzle representing word

or name (5) 18 Bright red (7) 20 Alimentary canal (3) 21 Circular (5) 22 Old Norse war-god (3) 23 Chore (4) 24 Way of bowling cricket

ball (8)

DOWN

1 Bend low to the ground (6) 2 Modulator-demodulator (5) 3 Mallet, chairman’s hammer (5) 5 Plant akin to evening primrose (7) 6 Young, beautiful maidens (6) 7 Chalk writing-surface on easel (10) 9 Dull, without vitality (10) 14 The strawberry-tree (7) 15 Intelligent; shining (6) 16 Robust, resolute (6) 18 Impertinent behaviour (5) 19 Supple, agile (5)