TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Crude head of organisation

in unusual races (6)

4 Curt brat up changing (6) 7 Raise back part (4)

8 Easily injured feline in food

shop, Eastern (8)

9 Voice coming from train? (7) 12 Model mistakenly getting

hold of this tree (3)

14 One notes punch from this

refrigerator compartment (6) 15 Dance in prisons (6) 16 Number returning with

mesh (3)

18 Generous party member (7) 22 Doctor seen with a French

king beside a road – a sot (8) 23 Engineers following the man

to this place (4)

24 Pair in cold with Eastern

monarch’s son (6)

25 Come first in test when

it’s cold (6)

DOWN

1 Flower taken from State

vehicle first (9)

2 Fellows in a labyrinth, initially

tense, getting surprise (9) 3 Spanish and German articles

of greater age (5)

4 Book of maps a salt

replaced (5)

5 Speed contest for expert

beside river (4)

6 Part of flower domestic

animal found on a lake (5) 10 Pair with bird found to roam

in search of prey (5)

11 Step where rat is injured (5) 12 Wonderful former partner

with small room in French town initially (9) 13 Money star unexpectedly provided for monks’ residence (9)

17 Blunder creating great

fear, but not initially (5) 19 One charge making us

angry (5)

20 Supply eccentric owned (5) 21 American one showing

soon (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Rough (6)

4 Sudden (6)

7 Hind part (4)

8 Fragile (8)

9 Fast train (7)

12 Tree (3)

14 Refrigerator compartment (6) 15 High-kicking dance (6) 16 Mesh (3)

18 Abundant (7)

22 Tippler (8)

23 In this place (4)

24 Monarch’s son (6)

25 Icy (6)

DOWN

1 Flower (9)

2 Astonishment (9)

3 Senior (5)

4 Book of maps (5)

5 Speed contest (4)

6 Part of flower (5)

10 Roam in search of prey (5) 11 Step (5)

12 Splendid (9)

13 Monks’ residence (9) 17 Mistake (5)

19 Enraged (5)

20 Provide (5)

21 Lacking a name (4) ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER