TWO-WAY TEASER
1 North American girl in jug (8)
5 A container partly open (4)
8 Pram slope (4)
9 Fragment from a piano recital, maybe (8)
10 Tidy bit of wilderness in a suburb of Paris (7)
12 Bundles for a bachelor boy (5)
13 Time and a quarter (6)
15 Bird sick of flying (6)
17 Bit of luck concerning money (5)
18 Where, on the motorway, no car is wrecked (7)
22 Rice a man cooked, Yankee style (8)
23 Birds in the music room (4)
24 Soft as a piece of cake (4)
25 Count Art as a renegade (8)
DOWN
1 Growing cause of corrosion in cars (7)
2 Called to help raise demand (5)
3 Apply motivation an MP may have to lie about (5)
4 A morning start, possibly, is quite usual (4)
6 Like a good-humoured Scot (7)
7 Swims or dances (5)
11 Distance to ride (5)
12 Can have its storms, one thinks (5)
14 Being illegal, can get players in court (7)
16 Movement of trains, perhaps, to a
junction (7)
17 Permission not to eat something (5)
19 Such thoughtful feelings are, in a way, right (5)
20 Character always able to make more love (5)
21 Does such singing drive the cats wild? (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 North American citizen (8)
5 Slightly open (4)
8 Swindle (4)
9 Tiny piece (8)
10 Tidy, methodical (7)
12 Cloth bundles (5)
13 Leap (6)
15 ‘Talking’ bird (6)
17 Pelf (5)
18 Mediterranean island (7)
22 New Yorker, say (8)
23 Flightless birds (4)
24 Simple (4)
25 Renegade (8)
1 Root vegetables (7)
2 Identified (5)
3 Drive (5)
4 Usual standard (4)
6 Facetious (7)
7 Whirls (5)
11 Target distance (5)
12 Intellect (5)
14 Criminal activities (7)
16 Passage, conveyance (7)
17 Go away (5)
19 Central (5)
20 Great lover (5)
21
DOWN
‘Shoo!’ (4))