TWO-WAY TEASER
TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Disliked being drunkenly steered around the Nag’s Head (8)
5 Proverbially good standard (4) 8 The end of an animal (4) 9 Splits with the stars! (8)
10 Do something illuminating to make things less burdensome (7)
12 Well contradicted! (5)
13 Bustle around without being
obvious (6)
15 Possibly one-armed villain (6) 17 Electronic components
possibly knocked off? (5)
18 An old one certainly knows
the drill (7)
22 Beaten up and cooked,
in a certain case (8) 23 Formerly of some concern (4) 24 See the aged as unfriendly (4) 25 Her master has an untidy garret (8)
DOWN
1 Shakes so as to startle,
maybe? (7)
2 Move to and fro to music? (5) 3 A trying thing to do in the
boat astern (5)
4 Unable to appreciate what
is sound (4)
6 It’s nothing for Verdi to have a sad ending that’s exaggerated (7)
7 Such an answer is obviously
not polished (5)
11 Are they told in hospital,
especially? (5)
12 It’s right to shout out in
a fight (5)
14 City where it’s the fashion
to be shipshape (7)
16 Men trot around contorted
in pain (7)
17 Of the square shape
suggested by Rubik (5) 19 We get it all the time (5) 20 The man who came to
dinner! (5)
21 Leaving, possibly for
Maidenhead (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Objected to (8) 5 Precious metal (4) 8 Follow (4)
9 Smashes (8)
10 Alleviate (7)
12 Poorly (5)
13 Faint, delicate (6) 15 Robber (6)
17 French fries (5)
18 Warrior (7)
22 Pounded (8)
23 Formerly (4)
24 Icy (4)
25 Baroness --- Thatcher (8)
DOWN 1 Shakes (7)
2 Pendulum movement (5) 3 Flavour (5)
4 Unable to hear (4) 6 Exaggerated (7) 7 Powdery (5)
11 Stories (5)
12 Fight (5)
14 English city (7)
16 Agony (7)
17 Shaped like dice (5) 19 More ancient (5) 20 Central (5)
21 Opposite of “to” (4) ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER