TWO WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Depress second tot given

directions (6)

4 Gift for members of the

opposite sex? (6)

7 Plant mostly from Eire (4) 8 Journalist about to meet

baggage carrier (8)

9 Infantile and shabby, I messed

about (7)

12 Drink taken in late

afternoon (3)

14 Tenor I moved from the

East (6)

15 Attack Ailsa’s novel (6)

16 Fall behind convict (3) 18 Entertaining woman? (7) 22 Protection against rain for bull

and mare, perhaps (8)

23 Left and dated an oaf (4) 24 Stray setter in the road (6)

25 Utterly defeat in an athletic event (6)

1 Cake – Ross’s will

collapse (5,4)

2 Drooling on the football

pitch? (9)

3 Irritable police informer with

youth leader (5)

4 Uses a keyboard of sorts (5) 5 Fat left on a road (4)

6 Note received by goodnatured relative (5)

10 Roll given to church group (5) 11 He goes round a street with

speed (5)

12 Radically change farms torn

apart (9)

DOWN

13 Large reptile upsetting a girl a

lot (9)

17 Acknowledge maid’s new type

of shirt (5)

19 Show letter displaying young

nocturnal bird (5)

20 Leader of team over-hasty?

Rubbish! (5)

21 Brother – one with Eastern cheese (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Make unhappy (6)

4 Special aptitude (6)

7 Coloured part of eye (4) 8 Journalist (8)

9 Immature (7)

12 Beverage (3)

14 East (6)

15 Attack (6)

16 Fall behind (3) 18 Woman who entertains

guests (7)

22 Brolly (8)

23 Yob (4)

24 Road (6)

25 Mallet (6)

DOWN

1 Cylindrical cake (5,4) 2 Slavering (9) 3 Bad-tempered, informally (5) 4 Kinds (5)

5 Pig fat (4)

6 Sibling’s daughter (5) 10 Bundle (5)

11 Hurry (5)

12 Change radically (9)

13 Large reptile of crocodile

family (9)

17 Allow to enter (5)

19 Young nocturnal bird (5) 20 Garbage (5)

21 Soft French cheese (4)