TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

7 Agreeable way to be, to cope

with man out on bail (13)

8 Bottle miner might have used

as a mixer (6,5)

12 Statement of grievance one

put in the factory (6)

14 Tattered awning getting

weaker (6)

16 Followed one that’s caudate

(6)

18 Husband at home in resting

place, running late (6)

19 Quick of mind, as one telling

ten off (11)

23 The highest happiness even

the shaven could achieve (7,6)

DOWN

1 Grave start to being a tomboy

(4)

2 The precise location of a

pimple (4)

3 Think of a new idea, and make

it up (6)

4 The sort of laugh a dimple

shows? (6)

5 Gilead’s fragrant substance (4) 6 A scheme for an architect’s

drawing (4)

9 Language is in a tail-twisting

form (7)

10 There is a view of the circle on

the wing (7)

11 How old French artist wasn’t

quite taken up (4)

12 The way to get a bit of

sympathy (4)

13 It shows maiden name will

require shortening (3)

15 Ruthlessly cut into tax evasion

(3)

17 Water it down with the lute I’d

made up (6)

18 Big illumination can be a cause

of plant destruction (6)

19 It occurs to one it’s not quite

perfect (4)

20 Family diagram in centre

explained (4)

21 First master to follow up 15 in

test at school (4)

22 Hiker turns up, having got

round long journey on foot (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

7 Friendly and pleasant to be

with (13)

8 Soft drink used as a mixer (6,5) 12 Complainant’s written

statement (literary) (6)

14 Opposite to waxing (moon) (6) 16 Doggedly followed one (6)

18 To the rear (6)

19 Smart (11)

23 The highest bliss (7,6)

DOWN

1 Sepulchre (4)

2 Catch sight of (4)

3 Make something new (6)

4 Cavity (6)

5 Soothing ointment (4)

6 Devise (4)

9 Language from Europe (7) 10 Belief (7)

11 Elderly (4)

12 Footway (4)

13 Born (French) (3)

15 Chopping tool (3)

17 Water down (6)

18 Curse (6)

19 Notion (4)

20 Forest plant (4)

21 Formal test (short) (4)

22 Long, hard journey (4)