TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 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) 18 Sovereign’s wife (7) 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)