TWO-WAY TEASER

TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same... CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Battered fish she

accepted (6)

4 It needs considerable resources to change the law (6)

7 Small banks of sand in

the river (4)

8 Branch is not on fire (3-5) 9 Mother left fat on the duck (7) 12 Stitch in three ways (3) 14 Scholar makes notes in

exercise book (6)

15 Stay in a formation of

IRA men (6)

16 It’s played on the carpet (3) 18 Backward boys able to

go in for gossip (7)

22 Begin an unusual run

as top of the bill (4,4)

23 New pear crop (4)

24 Menace from the rat (6) 25 Demon drink? (6)

DOWN

1 Pound for a neat writer (6,3) 2 Unusual pet made us

excited (7,2)

3 Note the record is

amusing (5)

4 A thin layer above and

below the ice (5)

5 A pain in the stomach

eased by treatment (4)

6 He’s to be changed, not

these (5)

10 Joins a course for drivers (5) 11 Anxiety shown by red-head

coming in late (5)

12 Perhaps a pony is a matter

of no consequence (5,4)

13 Deteriorated and became

a drug-taker (4,2,3) 17 Mahler’s third in the full

version (5)

19 Where people involved with rackets may be seen, in more than one way (5) 20 One may be dressed

up to them – by numbers? (5) 21 Charge is about right

on the house (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Bludgeoned (6) 4 Opulence (6) 7 Northern river (4) 8 Outgrowth (3-5)

9 Duck (7)

12 Stitch (3)

14 Stickler for rules (6) 15 Abide (6)

16 Forty winks (3) 18 Outrage (7) 22 Top-line act (4,4) 23 Harvest (4) 24 Menace (6) 25 Apparition (6)

DOWN

1 Animal enclosure (6,3) 2 Misted over (7,2) 3 Comical (5)

4 Biscuit (5)

5 Pain (4)

6 The items indicated (5) 10 Golf course (5)

11 Fear (5)

12 Trifling matters (5,4) 13 Fell into decline (4,2,3) 17 Letter “H” (5)

19 Woo (5)

20 One may be dressed

to them (5)

21 Gratis (4)