TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Lean spinner is first-class (3-3) 4 Where people make pots

on a wheel? (6)

7 It is dry in the Kalahari

Desert (4)

8 Regarded as having taken

no active part (6,2)

9 Upset at dense and poor

part of London (4,3)

12 Its price increases after

it has been cut (3)

14 A Spaniard is taken for

a Greek (6)

15 Bed not turned – but the

sheets may be (6)

16 Pixie full of Cockney

well-being, we hear (3)

18 Be in the lead in a snooker game – a trumped up affair (5-2)

22 Accomplished players,

but not very bright (8) 23 Capital and endless loose

change (4)

24 Aircraft at the end of

a flight in the sky (6) 25 Feast I set out for

a religious festival (6)

DOWN

1 Make clear what is foreign

to us? (9)

2 Put two and two together (6,3) 3 One in conspiracy to control

the ship (5)

4 It goes to the head of state (5) 5 Look for the bishop’s office

over the week-end (4) 6 Loop-line soon turns East (5)

10 Being unyielding, a point

leads to a quarrel (5)

11 A buzzer that doesn’t work (5) 12 Way-out supporters (9) 13 Maine’s not to be confused

with this state (9)

17 It is even palindromic (5) 19 Cook needs the right oven (5) 20 It’s an idea to turn up healthy

to the doctor (5)

21 Flier, no longer in the navy (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 First-class (3-3) 4 Gaming-house (6) 7 Parched (4)

8 Regarded (6,2)

9 Cockney part of London (4,3) 12 Jewel (3)

14 Handsome man (6)

15 Textile fabric (6)

16 Sprite (3)

18 False charge (5-2)

22 Cloudy (8)

23 Norwegian capital (4) 24 Mars, for example (6) 25 Festival (6)