TWO-WAY TEASER

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

ACROSS

1 Glum, finding rotten

melons (6)

4 Idler’s shoe (6)

7 Weep audibly in river (4) 8 Scold salesman with fish (8) 9 He dares to break sticks (7) 12 Many going after the

Spanish source of wood (3) 14 Cat seen with lad and

unfeminine girl (6)

15 Make a mistake sending

schoolchildren back (4,2) 16 Owns part of rich

assortment (3)

18 Beginner’s course (7)

22 Nap later, possibly, like

a father (8)

23 On a single occasion

in the past (4)

24 Superior punter (6) 25 Swindle tearaway (3-3)

DOWN

1 Stay with guard using

timer (9)

2 Pass a mall, perhaps, somewhere in the Canary Islands (3,6)

3 Sauce bottle (5)

4 To fall from the faith is

a mistake (5)

5 Woman to receive ring

soon (4)

6 40 said to be outstandingly

good (5)

10 Rings shop distressed,

having received nothing (5) 11 Separate in a Croatian port (5) 12 Ten operas rewritten in an

international language (9) 13 Canadian emblem page

found under tree (5-4) 17 Stagger in a complex

network of paths (5)

19 Note, by the sound of it,

for a male voice (5)

20 It may be used to measure

a sovereign (5)

21 Tendency to be dishonest (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Serious (6) 4 Layabout (6)

7 York’s river (4) 8 Rebuke (8)

9 Sticks (7)

12 Tree (3) 14 Unfeminine girl (6) 15 Blunder (4,2) 16 Possesses (3) 18 First course (7) 22 Fatherly (8)

23 A single time (4) 24 Gambler (6) 25 Swindle (3-3)

DOWN

1 Timing device (9)

2 Port in the Canary

Islands (3,6)

3 Audacity (5)

4 Slight error (5)

5 Soon (4)

6 Surpass (5)

10 Rings (5)

11 Divide (5)

12 International language (9) 13 Canadian emblem (5-4) 17 Astonish (5)

19 Male singer (5) 20 Monarch (5)

21 Curved (4)