TWO-WAY TEASER
TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Some card-games supplied
by a stationer (6)
4 Sound of water? (6)
7 Many consume this (4)
8 A hostile measure (3-5) 9 Quiet, having been
overpowered (7)
12 Weapon for a Royal
Marine (3)
14 Rose is so awkward, dear (6) 15 Pitch a tent on American
college grounds (6)
16 Stop a goal (3)
18 A command and the ship’s
officer who gives it out? (7) 22 Cadger is source of shame (8) 23 Four-inch bananas (4)
24 Not so much covered by
instruction (6)
25 Cut short – a cruise,
perhaps? (6)
DOWN
1 Talk of past crimes in
Egyptian capital, perhaps (9) 2 It issues notes, though
not silver (5,4)
3 Among the staff we
quarrelled (5)
4 The power of a waterfall (5) 5 Increase the rent? (4) 6 Happen to be two hundred
belonging to us outside (5) 10 Variety of amber or
yellowish fish (5)
11 A drop of whisky before
a stage show (5)
12 Brandy and beer a sailor
swallows very quietly (5-4)
13 Erring, having been badly
directed? (9)
17 I’ve an order that’s
simple (5)
19 An increase, not for the first
time (5)
20 Late entry by monarch causes great apprehension (5)
21 Bird droppings? (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Eraser (6)
4 Six feet (6)
7 Flesh (4)
8 Tribal battle ceremony (3-5)
9 Overpowered (7) 12 Limb (3)
14 Flew high (6) 15 College grounds (6) 16 Finish (3) 18 Commission to act (7) 22 Shame (8) 23 Employee (4) 24 Instruction period (6) 25 Cut short (6)
DOWN 1 Remember (9) 2 Wind ensemble (5,4) 3 Took the oars (5) 4 Compel (5)
5 Rip (4)
6 Happen (5) 10 Freshwater fish (5) 11 Stage-play (5) 12 Fruit brandy (5-4) 13 Led astray (9) 17 Artless (5)
19 Once more (5) 20 Horror (5)
21 Ova (4)