TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Pilot in marina, surprisingly (6) 4 Hunted animal finding source of stone (6) 7 Container found next to a brass instrument (4) 8 Quote Len, exceptionally fluent (8) 9 Political party member finding bear ill, possibly (7) 12 Colouring substance used by comedy entertainers (3) 14 District Attorney unusually tiny and delicate (6) 15 Young dog with favourite doll moved by strings (6) 16 Head of department at home making noise (3) 18 At present he comes before engineers in no place (7) 22 Female offspring’s novel thug read (8) 23 Wine from Hastings (4) 24 Offer making us sore (6) 25 Hothead I’d found next to lair, concealed (6)

DOWN

1 Staggered due to sand shifting (9) 2 Revolt and rile noble somehow (9) 3 Relative with energy in French city (5) 4 Audibly cite a part assigned (5) 5 Border where a tub is overturned (4) 6 Lanky head of year called first (5) 10 Graduate with heavyweight conductor’s stick (5) 11 Parasite left on river (5) 12 Journalists indeed miserable (9) 13 Stress after former partner gets additional telephone (9) 17 One grandmother with energy being silly (5) 19 Head off warmer aquatic mammal (5) 20 Stern royal in mess (5) 21 Old silver found on journalist (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Pilot (6) 4 Source of building-stone (6) 7 Brass instrument (4) 8 Fluent (8) 9 Generous (7) 12 Colouring substance (3) 14 Delicate (6) 15 Doll moved by strings (6) 16 Racket (3) 18 In no place (7) 22 Female offspring (8) 23 Italian wine (4) 24 Sore (6) 25 Concealed (6)

DOWN

1 Amazed (9) 2 Uprising (9) 3 Sibling’s daughter (5) 4 Proportional share (5) 5 Adjoin (4) 6 Lanky (5) 10 Conductor’s stick (5) 11 Parasitic insect (5) 12 Miserable (9) 13 Addition to building (9) 17 Silly (5) 19 Aquatic mammal (5) 20 Severe (5) 21 Old (4)