TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Impure mixture for judge (6)

4 Opportunity to make fortune (6)

7 Cooked to be socially acceptable (4)

8 Very large American soldier acting badly (8)

9 Negative commercial with poetry (7)

12 About time to find Tom? (3)

14 Spike drink after one politician appears (6)

15 Usual woman left (6)

16 It’s almost always the day before (3)

18 A friend extremely unpopular and unprofessional (7)

22 Avoid favourites backed by team (8)

23 Game left by head of unit before party (4)

24 The law about riches (6)

25 Funny card found by the French child’s bed (6)

DOWN

1 Eccentric in deer fur being criticised (5,4)

2 Tree fruit and another type of fruit (9)

3 Head off dog and bird (5)

4 Enclosures used 100 times (5)

5 Relative from Taunton (4)

6 Mate from the country (5)

10 All four turning up in country residence (5)

11 Call up woman receiving approval (5)

12 Visit and have a change of heart (4,5)

13 Pete and Noel worried about heroin ring (9)

17 Tenor, e.g., in express (5)

19 Many at church for marriage (5)

20 Subject to photograph (5)

21 Came down a hill (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Arbitrator (6)

4 Risk (6)

7 Cooked sufficiently (4)

8 Enormous (8)

9 Unfavourable (7)

12 Feline (3)

14 Pierce (6)

15 Usual (6)

16 First woman (3)

18 Not professional (7)

22 Avoid (8)

23 Simple board game (4)

24 Riches (6)

25 Baby’s bed (6)

DOWN

1 Being attacked (5,4)

2 Tropical fruit (9)

3 Bird of prey (5)

4 Coops (5)

5 Relative (4)

6 Ceramic ware (5)

10 Country residence (5)

11 Elicit (5)

12 Regain consciousness (4,5)

13 Ring (9)

17 Power of speech (5)

19 Game (5)

20 Theme (5)

21 Descended (4)