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TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 Swimmer staring wildly at a youth leader (8) 5 List of protagonists? (4) 8 Busy doing nothing! (4) 9 At the leisure centre, discussing the following offence (8) 10 On the quiet, possibly four ways to be fulsome (7) 12 The sin of Charlie Frost! (5) 13 Mutiny by an army engineers’ unit (6) 15 Put down your name or title, as an Italian (6) 17 Artist with whom many went to Eton, perhaps? (5) 18 Hoped to get wildly praised (7) 22 Undertaking to be affable (8) 23 Border of neatly planted geraniums (4) 24 Kind, and always so right (4) 25 They can be mashed to paste, if nothing else! (8) DOWN 1 A leading jumper? (7) 2 Little white house without a fridge (5) 3 They can prick you and cause fresh sores (5) 4 Yes, at winter’s end there’s time (4) 6 One’s personal view is that love has to bind (7) 7 Possibly obtuse old tribesman? (5) 11 Not kindled until possibly required (5) 12 Little devil going to church with a primate (5) 14 Being acid causes a girl extraordinary anger (7) 16 In the haunts of revolutionaries, looks embarrassed (7) 17 Satisfies the requirements newly set by me (5) 19 A good deal of spectacle (5) 20 Had no mount, it seems, in the riders’ show (5) 21 Where a little smoke’s concerned, a literal falsehood (4) QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Fish able to hurt (8) 5 Duty list (4) 8 Lazy (4) 9 Following stealthily (8) 10 Abundant (7) 12 Offence (5) 13 Uprising (6) 15 Italian man (6) 17 Claude, French artist (5) 18 Hoped to (7) 22 Hiring (8) 23 Margin (4) 24 Type, variety (4) 25 Spuds (8) DOWN 1 Captain (7) 2 Snow house (5) 3 Thorny flowers (5) 4 Twelvemonth (4) 6 One’s view (7) 7 Corner (5) 11 Not illuminated (5) 12 An ape, informally (5) 14 Acidic condiment (7) 16 Blushes (7) 17 Joins (5) 19 Vision (5) 20 Cowboy show (5) 21 Bit of straw, hair, etc. (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS: 1 Betrayal, 5 Mama, 8 Coat, 9 Comrades, 10 Uplifts, 12 Avert, 13 Expert, 15 Seesaw, 17 Tuned, 18 Plaster, 22 Broadway, 23 Wail, 24 Owns, 25 Gardener.
DOWN: 1 Because, 2 Trail, 3 Yacht, 4 Lamp, 6 Address, 7 Asset, 11 Fired, 12 Arena, 14 Pontoon, 16 Warbler, 17 Taboo, 19 Layer, 20 Train, 21 Twig. ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER