TWO-WAY TEASER
TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Extracts that will suffice
for a long time (8)
5 Oh dash it – let’s have a bit
of a change! (4)
8 The gang may get their cut (4) 9 Animal making an insect
run away? (8)
10 Such a piano can still be
grand (7)
12 Indicate the spot (5)
13 You can make one if you try (6) 15 Noticed the absence of
a girl and a boy (6)
17 Lists as needing treatment
for cuts (5)
18 Like many others, they
have children (7)
22 Mike may take new heart,
getting a century! (8)
23 The tea lady? (4)
24 Shows a profit to a spy,
possibly (4)
25 Bit of a piano recital, maybe (8)
DOWN
1 Just imagine – it could
be of Dorian Gray! (7)
2 Avoid crashing into trees? (5) 3 Chart used in
photography (5)
4 Oversupply with eats,
maybe (4)
6 They could have been suffered in Saigon, perhaps, out East (7)
7 Letter to a girl somewhere
in Wales (5)
11 Do boys find them
contradictory? (5)
12 Possibly wet coat (5)
14 Like coquettish air
hostesses? (7)
16 Justify making a chap
veer wildly? (7)
17 Incisive in a way that’s
notedly unnatural (5)
19 This person’s got something (5) 20 The change, I see, is moral (5) 21 Put your foot in the waste
paper basket (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Corridors (8) 5 Depend (4)
8 Set of sailors (4) 9 Gazelle, e.g. (8) 10 Erect (7)
12 Sharp tip (5) 13 Exertion (6)
15 Failed to hit (6) 17 Cuts open (5) 18 Mums (7)
22 Famous batsman (8)
23 Blacken by fire (4) 24 Gives money (4) 25 Tiny bit (8)
DOWN
1 Illustration (7)
2 Guide (5)
3 Diagram (5)
4 Glut (4)
6 Torments (7)
7 Former Welsh county (5) 11 Young ladies (5) 12 Colour (5)
14 Flirtatious (7)
16 Merit (7)
17 Acute (5)
19 Proprietor (5)
20 Moral principle (5) 21 Stride (4)