TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 It’s a crime: take it as an affront (7)

5 Haul back to church by the

narrow ravine (5)

8 Butterfly with its place on the

bridge? (7)

9 Pythias’ friend returned, a

wanderer (5)

10 Fleeting view of the lee her

map afforded (9)

12 A tint and the cry of the

chase (3)

13 Assumption of a mix that may

have nothing in it (5)

17 Succour is offered for a bust not

starting (3)

19 A company’s security may need

brute to arrange it (9)

21 The company we get is right to

shrink in fear (5)

22 Then, can it be made to

captivate one? (7)

24 A teetotal advertisement for a

nymph in the wood (5)

25 Being rash, he had to get sorted

out (7)

DOWN

1 A sort of grey-pink mushroom

(7)

2 A flirtatious journey by air to

capital of Yemen (7)

3 The raised surface is offered as a

racing certainty (3)

4 The lesser rorqual shows there

to have been a mistake (5)

5 A person of breeding might lament gen being distributed (9)

6 Fluid an elderly MP has to

hold (5)

7 Did wrong, when bird was

about, to have kept it secret (6) 11 Wandered about in Eden,

dream having been broken (9)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 A transgression (7)

5 Narrow, rocky valley (5)

8 A marine captain (7)

9 Wanderer (5)

10 Short-lived (9)

12 Colour (3)

13 A self-evident truth (5) 17 Help (3)

19 Security company issues

against loan (9)

21 Crouch in fear (5)

22 Cast a spell on (7)

24 Wood-nymph (5)

25 Impetuous person (7)

DOWN

1 Pearl producer (7)

2 Volatile (7)

3 A short sleep (3)

4 Mistake (5)

5 Gallant one (9)

6 Fluid rich in white cells (5)

7 Concealed (6)

11 Ambled aimlessly (9)

14 Bravery (7)

15 Foul (6)

16 Examined critically (6)

18 Property a woman brings to

marriage (5)

20 Smooth grey-barked tree (5) 23 Sever (3)