TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Miserable cads won’t

change (8)

5 Hot stuff from down under (4) 8 Slow as a novice at tea

making (4)

9 Possibly reads up a key part so

as to advise (8)

10 The Elgar piece suffered when

mutilated or misinterpreted (7) 12 The goalie likes a clean one (5) 13 Offer to be gentle (6)

15 A corny version, but it’s

colourful (6)

17 They come to light, naturally (5) 18 Weapon that wounded a girl (7) 22 Endless restraint, perhaps in

footwear production (8)

23 Do you lose yours when things

get heated? (4)

24 Fair share for Henry, head of

the family (4)

25 Took relative care of an insect

on a broken reed (8)

DOWN

1 Take great pleasure in being

Turkish! (7)

2 Wet stuff we confuse with

art! (5)

3 Fruit put very quietly into

beer (5)

4 Go and act! (4)

6 Where Oscar learned about

that award? (7)

7 Expert apt to be about half

dead! (5)

11 Can they grow sleek? (5) 12 No great swimmer (5)

14 In this, one aims for a high

goal (7)

16 Comfortably settled, as in

some homely place (7)

17 A striker’s game? (5) 19 Surprising defeat, perhaps,

with higher class (5) 20 Mother returns our love (5) 21 Interminable period? (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Dejected (8) 5 Volcanic matter (4) 8 Tardy (4)

9 Coax (8)

10 Misstated (7)

12 Thin layer (5)

13 Soft (6)

15 Coloured pencil (6) 17 Flying insects (5) 18 Sword (7)

22 Coaches (8)

23 Fairly cold (4)

24 Fifty per cent (4) 25 Pampered (8)

DOWN

1 Glee (7)

2 Irrigate (5)

3 Fruit (5)

4 Swivel (4)

6 School (7)

7 Skilled (5) 11 Vegetables (5) 12 Small fish (5) 14 Team game (7) 16 Lay snug (7) 17 Contest (5)

19 Spill (5)

20 Love affair (5) 21 Period at school (4)