TWO-WAY TEASER
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Compound as the choice of many questions (8)
4 Give me back my award (4) 8 If it’s out of its shell, take a spanner to it (3) 9 Animal with a sore throat, by the sound of it (5)
10 How to pinch a drink of spirits (3)
11 Have the shakes, like boy singer holding first missal (7) 12 It is the fashion to develop a series of cracks (5) 13 A metaphysician quietly upsetting Polish hero (11) 17 Fine a thousand for joining wrong cult (5)
18 It is hard to get rid of a gummed label (7)
20 Is not conscious of being dismissed (3)
21 Get prepared to aim the gun (5)
22 One finishes sentence? Party time! (3)
23 One in her confusion will take somebody on (4)
24 A setback reveals disorder that surrounds the right (8)
DOWN
1 Very small division of a
degree (6)
2 Be supple and slither
inside (5)
3 At which one may be free to
be generous (5)
5 Composite picture of game
not to be made up (7)
6 Sounded a little canine (6)
7 Discernment show by prince
and poet maybe (10)
9 To qualify a bit, he turned
tail (10)
14 It packs a pistol and gives her lots of change (7)
15 So moth may appear to land without bumps (6) 16 Barbaric bishop sits on struggling ultra (6) 18 Room to be explored by astronauts (5) 19 Prestige is nothing when it’s perhaps dusk outside (5)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 In many forms (8) 4 A television award (4) 8 Counterpart to bolt (3) 9 Equine animal(5) 10 Touch of cold in the air (3) 11 Shake (7)
12 A fad (5)
13 Person such as Aristotle (11) 17 A penalty (5) 18 Gummed label (7) 20 Unconscious (3) 21 Coach (5)
22 Written point (3)
23 To charter (4)
24 Act of inverting (8)
DOWN
1 Tiny (6)
2 Supple (5)
3 Big (5) 5 Superimposed, built-up picture (7)
6 Barked like small dog (6) 7 One’s view of something (10) 9 To equip (10)
14 Pistol case (7)
15 Even (6)
16 Cruel (6)
18 Gap (5)
19 Credit (5)