TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Large-heartedness with which one may be mating many (11) 8 Wherewith, on net, it might join mortise (5)

9 Is, in mole’s turnaround, nimble (7)

10 In hiding one well, so turning

to it (4,3)

11 Come to rest in fixed position

and pass the night (5)

12 Book names lest it be altered

(6)

14 Take one across for a game

of cards (6)

18 Overfill first party hamper (5) 19 It will enable one to see

clearly what humbug it is (7) 21 Reduces sound of classes (7) 23 Spirit a graduate finds in the

dance (5)

24 Snap fire-breathing monster properly so called the flower (11)

DOWN

1 To Mel it seems to be a good place for a stopover (5) 2 Weapon smuggled into Burgundy (3)

3 Cancel year-book which has suffered a loss (5)

4 Wife’s family slain around start of wedding maybe (2-4) 5 Is prejudiced, narrow and surrounded by water (7) 6 River of Dorset and Somerset – in Skye oddly (3)

7 In what place do we make her change? (5)

13 A heroic deed one will turn

to one’s use (7)

15 Empty bottles tell no tales,

they say (4,3)

16 Name a fellow I map out

with her (7)

17 It spouts? Yes, Reg: it does

like this (6)

18 Young horses of chess first

lost out (5)

20 Electrical connection to

ground (5)

22 Health resort in a fool’s

paradise (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Generosity (11) 8 Projecting counterpart to a mortise (5)

9 Flexible (7)

10 Stays hidden (4,3)

11 Register (a complaint) (5) 12 Appellations of rank (6)

14 A spanning structure (6)

18 Painful muscular spasm (5) 19 Optical solution (7)

21 Church readings (7)

23 Cuban dance (5)

24 Snapdragon (11)

DOWN

1 Roadside inn (5) 2 Firearm (3)

3 Abolish (5)

4 Those related by marriage (2-4)

5 Of an island (7)

6 A river in Somerset, England (3)

7 In which place (5)

13 Deed (7)

15 . . . tell no tales (4,3)

16 One of the 12 tribes of Israel

(7)

17 Water heater (6)

18 Young horses (5)

20 Soil (5)

22 Mineral spring (3)