TWO-WAY TEASER

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Rise to get a perfume (6) 4 Former partner with wine

to sell abroad (6)

7 Monster making the queen

go back (4)

8 Distressed diner with gun,

standing (8)

9 Unfashionable team in the

open air (7)

12 Member, 50, for example (3) 14 Mostly Oriental festival (6) 15 No one with male cat

backing formal proposal (6) 16 Attempt to get sample (3) 18 Eccentric led Pete to get

exhaust (7)

22 Trio a don confused with

type of Indian cooking (8) 23 Man getting invoice (4) 24 Upstart in condition

getting sculpture (6) 25 Lanky group left before end of day (6)

DOWN

1 Somehow mend a torn

decoration (9)

2 Strangely inquisitively (9) 3 Lock used in fortresses (5) 4 Object journalist finished (5) 5 Leave vehicle in public

garden (4)

6 Selection of area for shooting

practice (5)

10 Type of shirt with tear in

fashion (5)

11 Call up the first woman

going round Oklahoma (5) 12 Odd girl, I note, hanging

about (9)

13 Officer extremely lively

usually (9)

17 Respond when engineers

behave (5)

19 Gradually destroy poem with

hesitation at first (5)

20 Some bully in gang telling

fibs (5)

21 Commercial – it shows

mine entrance (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Rise (6)

4 Sell to a foreign country (6) 7 Monster (4)

8 Lasting (8)

9 Exterior (7)

12 Limb (3)

14 Christian festival (6) 15 Movement (6)

16 Attempt (3)

18 Reduce in quantity (7) 22 Indian method of cooking (8) 23 Beak (4)

24 Sculpture (6)

25 Lanky (6)

DOWN 1 Decoration (9) 2 Strangely (9) 3 Lock of hair (5) 4 Finished (5) 5 Public garden (4) 6 Scope (5) 10 Fashion (5) 11 Summon up (5) 12 Lingering (9)

13 In most cases (9) 17 Respond (5) 19 Wear away (5) 20 Fibbing (5) 21 Mine entrance (4)