TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Disorder of one’s stomach

last month (6)

4 Thus material comfort

results (6)

7 Fled before the start of the

storm (4)

8 Come again to gather fruit (8) 9 Influences strikes (7) 12 Health resort’s endless

boom (3)

14 Expenditure for free-range

egg production? (6) 15 Withdraw in a sort of

trance (6)

16 Can be used to describe

money (3)

18 Fast sailing ship takes the

wool crop (7)

22 Prophetic warning shout

to players (8)

23 Point to a shed that’s

close (4)

24 Bird circles its quarry (6) 25 Eat out? (6)

DOWN

1 Dressed and made to leave

the house (6,3)

2 American island cocktail (9) 3 Brief accepted in Quarter

Sessions (5)

4 Able in a way, but limited (5) 5 Take steps to work in the

French way (4)

6 Restrict king in temporary

quarters (5)

10 Country dropping a point

in its currency (5)

11 Clean up in the lottery (5) 12 Has cure in preparation - for the bather who steps on it? (3-6)

13 Pole position? (9)

17 People are clapped in these

clubs (5)

19 Green meadow on forestry

boundaries (5)

20 Erect a palindrome (3,2) 21 Close tight (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Uproar (6)

4 Comfort (6)

7 Rave (4)

8 Turn up again (8) 9 Influences (7)

12 Spring (3)

14 Expenditure (6)

15 Disavow former opinions (6) 16 Metal (3)

18 Fast sailing ship (7) 22 Predict (8)

23 Closed (4)

24 Fish-eating bird of prey (6) 25 Open-air meal (6)

DOWN

1 Expelled (6,3)

2 New York island (9) 3 Laconic (5)

4 Scarcely sufficient (5) 5 Bound (4)

6 Muscular contraction (5) 10 Former French currency (5) 11 Clean with broom (5) 12 Spiny marine creature (3-6) 13 South polar ocean (9) 17 Presses clothes (5) 19 Verdant (5)

20 Erect (3,2)

21 Close (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER