TWO-WAY TEASER

1 Trim a tree (6)

4 Ace lot’s unusual find (6)

7 Absent from a course (4)

8 Best musical instruments for highestranking officers (3,5)

9 Fruit selections found by the ring (7)

12 Understand witness (3)

14 Dismount with a lamp (6)

15 Money found with medal (6)

16 Barrel for the King’s Head, for example (3)

18 Footballer refusing to work? (7)

22 Frozen confection I ate with crew, perhaps (5,3)

23 Sweet for a lot of money (4)

24 Walk in street with official list (6)

25 Attempt to get hold of object that’s fashionable (6)

DOWN

1 Short lecture leading to light conversation (5,4)

2 Singer on a broadcast thinking logically (9)

3 Scoffed, hearing public school (5)

4 Slip in the interval (5)

5 Short royal in trim (4)

6 Flavour a small portion (5)

10 Accounts about the man with pains (5)

11 Glue for staff (5)

12 Old coin showing ruler (9)

13 Ten relays organised in a serious manner (9)

17 Former law, to be precise (5)

19 Machinist willingly using a woven fabric (5)

20 Fashionable pet unexpectedly awkward (5)

21 Ban animal doctor with oxygen (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Smart (6)

4 Find (6)

7 On holiday (4)

8 Highest-ranking officials (3,5)

9 Citrus fruit (7)

12 Catch sight of (3)

14 On fire (6)

15 Precious metal (6)

16 Small cask (3)

18 Attacking footballer (7)

22 Sorbet (5,3)

23 Place where money is coined (4)

24 Saunter (6)

25 Fashionable (6)

DOWN

1 Trifling conversation (5,4)

2 Logic (9)

3 Dined (5)

4 Slight error (5)

5 Rudely brief (4)

6 Sample (5)

10 Dull pains (5)

11 Rod (5)

12 Monarch (9)

13 Sincerely (9)

17 Strictly accurate (5)

19 Woven fabric (5)

20 Clumsy (5)

21 Prohibition (4)