TWO-WAY TEASER
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
7 Such perilous waters his freak tends to bring about (5-8)
8 Almost watch a Conservative
at Greenwich, say (11)
12 Guide chaps on the mountain
(6)
14 An Archdeacon in Ely puts it
smoothly (6)
16 Extra number going to the
dance (2-4)
18 Is deprived of beer spilt by a
newspaper (6)
19 Prompt exit first uncle was
poised to make (11)
23 Doubtful way to be calm:
April changes (13)
DOWN
1 Scare them but don’t shoot
altogether (4)
2 Weapons found in farmstead
(4)
3 It will reflect such writing is
backward (6)
4 Two successive notes café
could use to obliterate (6)
5 Capital withdrawn from giro slowly (4)
6 Turn down end of alley, following retreat (4) 9 Bunch of musicians fight for a hat container (7)
10 Form of poem about a nude,
or it might be (7)
11 A bag-like structure takes
some fancy stitching (4)
12 Lots may conceal a point (4) 13 Well-produced though
initially crude (3)
15 How one may contend with
life in France (3) 17 Run that can be taken rung
by rung (6)
18 Be a carrier of drinks that will
prove treacherous (6)
19 Lear turned noble (4)
20 Peter usually buys shandies,
primarily, in bars (4)
21 Leave out nothing Tim
returned (4)
22 Influence opinion, for
example, about the West (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
7 (Sea) full of dangerous fish
(5-8)
8 Telescope-housing site (11) 12 Trusted adviser (6)
14 Smoothly (6)
16 Illegal cricket delivery (2-4) 18 Deprived (of) (6)
19 Speedy (11)
23 Questionable (13)
DOWN
1 Shout to drive away (4)
2 Upper limbs (4)
3 Looking glass (6)
4 Obliterate (6)
5 Norway capital (4)
6 Reject (4)
9 Hat container (7)
10 Poem of 13 or 10 lines (7) 11 Saclike growth (4)
12 Lots (4)
13 Frying liquid (3)
15 Compete (for) (3)
17 Stocking run 6)
18 Behave treacherously (6) 19 British nobleman’s title (4) 20 Taverns (4)
21 Leave out (4)
22 Move from side to side (4)