TWO-WAY TEASER

1 Support for a moment (6)

4 Tune many yodel badly (6)

7 Expensive animals, say (4)

8 A pal with rent, possibly, like a father (8) 9 Dancer’s garment from unusually dear

lot (7)

12 Insect found in Russian territory (3) 14 Writer with a hut or alternative (6) 15 Previous class meeting the queen (6) 16 Longing for money from Japan (3) 18 Sovereign’s wife from East with male

journalists (7)

22 Verse by a spiteful woman – one on

holiday (8)

23 Yearn for tree (4)

24 Stop work when hit (6)

25 Upsetting Ron, the large wasp (6)

DOWN

1 It’s unusually tender, say, from

sitting (9)

2 Cleaner the French beat – a fraud (9) 3 Record found in Dorothy’s

storehouse (5)

4 Second Conservative almost getting

car (5)

5 Rule out attraction (4)

6 Looking strained, having tied (5) 10 Gas coming from initially overgrown

area (5)

11 Doctor – one identifying deep humming

sound (5)

12 Confession needed to get access (9) 13 Wild eccentric burnt lute (9)

17 Former partner, a lieutenant, getting

praise (5)

19 Cereal plant I found in labyrinth (5) 20 Stock farm in Iran chiefly (5) 21 Volunteers, before eleven, needing

cab (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Moment (6)

4 Tune (6)

7 Beloved (4)

8 Fatherly (8) 9 Dancer’s garment (7) 12 Insect (3)

14 Writer (6) 15 Previous (6)

16 Longing (3) Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

18 Sovereign’s wife (7) ANSWERS TOMORROW

22 Holiday (8)

23 Conifer (4)

24 Hit (6)

25 Large wasp (6)

DOWN

1 Sitting much (9)

2 Quack (9)

3 Storehouse (5)

4 Engine (5)

5 Enticement (4)

6 Haggard (5)

10 Gas with pungent odour (5)

11 Male bee (5)

12 Entry (9)

13 Tumultuous (9)

17 Praise highly (5)

19 Corn (5)

20 North American stock farm (5)

21 Cab (4)