TWO-WAY TEASER
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Was a gambler, and passed away when about a hundred (5)
4 Badly cast lip is capable of being moulded (7) 8 Ladies who are singleminded? (9)
9 Raced to give the senior service a centre (3)
10 The open air exit? (7)
12 Capital thus returned, only half lost (4)
14 One may be paid for doing no more work (7)
17 Have pity for a girl (4)
18 So treat it differently from the
stone with its hieroglyphics (7) 20 A naughty child, one taken by
the army cops (3)
21 Composer of Cats
(trial version) (9)
23 Was bribed, as is apparent in
avarice (7)
24 Black-eyed girl who came into
flower (5)
DOWN
1 Is putting one off Prom in entering other digs (13) 2 A pass, note, to try right away (6)
3 Find out that the record is finished (8)
4 Writer who gave up work at start of the eighties (3) 5 Thus 9 was unplaced (4) 6 Songster suffering inflammation in the throat (6) 7 I’d been surrounded by the solace of a merger (13)
11 One getting up a part of
a stair (5)
13 Takes professional advice in
order to cut loss the North
made (8)
15 How to fasten papers with unmanufactured wool (6) 16 One’s standing on the street at American end (6) 19 Functions found in various escapades (4)
22 Put on a degree of divinity (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Chopped into cubes (5)
4 Mouldable material (7)
8 Unmarried women (9)
9 Rushed off (3)
10 In the open air (7)
12 Norwegian capital (4)
14 Allowance to one retired (7) 17 Pity (arch) (4)
18 Discovery site of ancient
stone (7)
20 Little devil (3)
21 Domenico . . . (Italian
composer) (9)
23 Lubricated (7)
24 Black-eyed . . . (plant) (5)
DOWN
1 Throwing one into confusion (13) 2 Requisition (6)
3 Find out (8)
4 Edgar Allan . . . (American writer) (3)
5 Too (4)
6 Songbird (6)
7 Combining into one (13) 11 Vertical stair part (5)
13 Takes counsel (8)
15 U-shaped fastener (6)
16 Position (6)
19 Employs (4)
22 Tot up (3)