TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Men off work playing

football? (8)

5 As master, I had a servant (4) 8 This’ll bring out the sleuth

in you (4)

9 What today was,

yesterday (8)

10 As states go, a S. Asian

one (7)

12 Many poems are

fashionable (5)

13 It’s full of plots and terrible

danger! (6)

15 Being in a hole, make up

something (6)

17 When wet, there should

be nothing to touch it! (5) 18 Bird always sleeping? (7) 22 Out for a good time, are

they guilty of foul play? (8) 23 Plenty of shopping (4) 24 A great big hug,

sweetheart! (4) 25 The character of

immortality (5,3)

DOWN

1 Dismissal due to the

rough stuff? (7)

2 A bit of a fight (5)

3 Had a piece of chicken

for tea, perhaps (5)

4 Identical with Samuel

East (4)

6 Cut short a card game (7) 7 Starts at daybreak (5)

11 A nice little chap, that rep (5) 12 Fruit gives a fellow energy (5)

14 An elevating thing to do

with children (7)

16 Retires, like the Poles in

an Italian city (5,2)

17 Oval playing area,

possibly? (5)

19 For a start, it’s an assault (5) 20 To walk is an unfamiliar

art for a politician (5)

21 Look for a back copy (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Goal scorers (8) 5 Female servant (4) 8 A hint (4)

9 It’s after today (8)

10 American state (7) 12 Fashions (5) 13 Common or --- (6) 15 Fabricate (6)

17 Apply colour to (5) 18 Cockerel (7) 22 Excursionists (8) 23 Shopping carriers (4) 24 Enormous (4)

25 JM Barrie play (5,3)

DOWN

1 Coarse fabric (7) 2 Circular (5)

3 Consumed (5)

4 Identical (4)

6 Shorten (7)

7 First appears (5) 11 Representative (5) 12 Fruit used in chutney (5) 14 Lifting (7)

16 Goes to bed (5,2) 17 Throw (5)

19 Attack (5)

20 Hobo (5)

21 Peek (4)