TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 GI’s car exchanged for coronas (6)

8 An instrument to forbid a

loved one in Scotland (5)

9 Study round trip made

according to map line (7)

11 Lines on a boat made by Manet, Holbein, Titian and so on (8)

12 It is via of a secluded road (5) 15 A blow made by a shoemaker

(4)

16 Have a turn at time that’s past

(3)

17 There’s a warm spot in a

love-nest (4)

19 Geese when in flight may have

a woolly look (5)

21 The way one bears oneself

from the compartment (8)

24 N,S,E or W, win or place (4,3) 25 Tree to be found in a particular

churchyard (5)

26 Great to eat perfect starter for

meal (6)

DOWN

2 Fate-mocked condition may press you initially (5) 3 Draws a religious pamphlet that somehow sat around (8) 4 There’s nothing in to drink but some consommé (4) 5 Hard, black wood given one, by arrangement (5)

6 The single time a person swallows carbon (4) 7 In manuscript it is so upset to find a green plant (4)

10 It may give one the measure

of a fall (4,5)

12 Black bird of prey in hollow (4) 13 Reading customers go to it (8) 14 Soon, a negative from France

will appear (4)

A tussle may give one a scare right away (5)

An exact likeness of one attending the wrong game (5) A Gaul depicted in a chancel tapestry (4)

It’s not easy to find meat so undercooked (4)

Bits of corn for listeners (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Panatellas (6)

8 Stringed music instrument (5) 9 Outline (7)

11 Artists (8)

12 A private, secluded track (5)

15 Part that joins upper to sole

(4)

16 In the past (3)

17 Baking apparatus (4)

19 Flock of wild geese in flight (5) 21 Typewriter part (8)

24 Betting for win or place (4,3) 25 A deciduous conifer (5)

26 Evening meal (6)

DOWN

2 Sardonic literary style (5)

3 Draws (8)

4 Potage (4)

5 Heavy, hard wood (5)

6 At a single time (4)

7 Sphagnum (4)

10 Device measuring

precipitation (4,5)

12 Basin (4)

13 Retailer of reading matter (8) 14 Quite soon (literary) (4)

18 A set-to (5)

20 Picture (5)

21 Stone Age axelike tool (4)

22 Uncommon (4)

23 Spikes of corn (4)