TWO WAY TEASER

TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Leave for the Sahara,

perhaps (6)

4 Defect in the hose firemen

use (6)

7 Post of bodyguard (4)

8 Came - with servants? (8) 9 Force one to hang about

instead of going to work (7) 12 Colour shows a number have

the old fashioned style (3) 14 Subjected to decreasing

pressure? (6)

15 Rabies breaks out in the

country (6)

16 Tailless river duck (3) 18 Suitable dance for the Hunt

Ball? (7)

22 Dish for a Scotsman? Girl

returns with one (8)

23 Help comes from

Elizabeth (4)

24 Put in order and pay the

bill (6)

25 Charge exorbitantly for a woollen coat (6)

DOWN

1 Possibly not in Adam,

though risked by Eve (9) 2 Jammed cylinder (5-4) 3 Derelict ship (5)

4 Admit a learner to a famous

school (3,2)

5 Assume the point is

agreed? (4)

6 Time is not on our side? (5) 10 Novel supporter in the flesh,

perhaps (5)

11 Are sickly, under the doctor,

and gloomy (5)

12 Arrange a bed and board on

the borderline (9)

13 Oriental girl is carried

shoulder high (9)

17 I start to scold, being

furious (5)

19 Gas - a lightweight one (5) 20 Fit he may be - at a pinch! (5) 21 Lure one into a club (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Abandon (6)

4 Climbing aid (6)

7 Post (4)

8 Was present at (8)

9 Hang (7)

12 Colouring agent (3)

14 Pressed clothes (6)

15 Part of former Yugoslavia (6) 16 Nothing (3)

18 Dance (7)

22 Pasta (8)

23 Aid (4)

24 Alight (6)

25 Sheepskin (6)

DOWN

1 Eternal punishment (9) 2 Jam sponge cake (5,4) 3 Vagabond (5)

4 Reveal secret (3,2) 5 Completed (4)

6 Foe (5)

10 Ledge (5)

11 Dismal (5) 12 Controversial (9) 13 Shoulder decoration (9) 17 Angry (5)

19 Bracing air (5) 20 Robber (5)

21 Lure (4)