TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Could be used to put out (6) 4 Show where traffic goes

round (6)

7 It’s shouted as a warning,

of course (4)

8 Sovereign – or a gold

Russian coin (8)

9 Got to the point – summed up without a word of hesitation (7)

12 We need central heating

when it’s raining (3)

14 I am seen in unusual anger,

but recover possession (6) 15 Free admittance? (6) 16 Eastern figures of wood (3) 18 Third-mate to dawdle

around? Rubbish! (7)

22 Dog Latin as a composition (8) 23 Artist about to return a list (4) 24 Current charge for what

solicitors do (6) 25 Always wrong about an American patriot (6)

DOWN

1 Bound to go wrong? (3,6) 2 Start badly, but get a jewel,

that’s the plan (9)

3 Go for the green (5)

4 Police chase ends in the

wood (5)

5 Not often seen in the colder

areas of the world (4)

6 A habit socially acceptable

and wise (5)

10 The essential part of

decimals (5)

11 Having eaten a meal I’d

end a different shape (5) 12 Beneficial, though

self-contradictory in parts (9) 13 Happen to finish in the

first three (4,5)

17 Flower I ring up about (5) 19 A game that calls for

silence (5)

20 He gives a direction in

the entrance (5)

21 Inverted gas-ring used

for making puddings (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Ejected (6)

4 Big top (6)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

ACROSS: 1 Third man, 5 Etna, 8 Mail, 9 Slacking, 10 Lumbers, 12 Catty, 13 Refuse, 15 Candid, 17 Crane, 18 Carrots, 22 Original, 23 Rife, 24 Keen, 25 Paying in. DOWN: 1 Tumbler, 2 Idiom, 3 Miser, 4 Near, 6 Tainted, 7 Angry, 11 Ensue, 12 Chair, 14 Fragile, 16 Discern, 17 Clock, 19 Alloy, 20 Owing, 21 Snap.

7 Towards the front (4) 8 Majestic (8)

9 Came to a point (7) 12 Moist (3)

14 Win back (6)

15 Open with key (6)

16 Tree (3)

18 Senseless talk (7) 22 German shepherd dog (8) 23 Roster (4)

24 Approach and address (6) 25 Adore (6)

DOWN

1 On the wrong route (3,6) 2 Plot (9)

3 Tee-shot (5)

4 Clump of trees (5) 5 Uncommon (4)

6 Custom (5)

10 Sharp end (5)

11 Had main meal (5) 12 Nourishing (9)

13 Occur (4,5)

17 Shrub (5)

19 Card-game (5)

20 Giver (5)

21 Pudding ingredient (4