TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 A new bride’s bits and

pieces (6)

4 T-junction jam (6)

7 Support man with a

record (4)

8 Blocking - the road? (2,3,3) 9 Discharges and makes

vacant (7)

12 Damage is a broken arm (3) 14 Creature found wild in

Manila (6)

15 Do have a set-back with

debts admitted to be bad (6) 16 An article on Queen

Elizabeth’s age (3)

18 They may commemorate

different battles (7) 22 Swimmer appears to be

thrashing about (8)

23 Wharf ripe for demolition (4) 24 Book a flight (6) 25 Shout about jellied eel in the salad, perhaps (6)

DOWN 1 Dry-heated in order to lose

moisture (9)

2 Dancer all bare in

confusion (9)

3 Quick writer (5)

4 Raise it before the tenth (5) 5 Born in Paris, died in

penury (4)

6 The French hold strike for

beast of burden (5)

10 Form a queue at the back (5) 11 Slide about or walk like a

crab (5)

12 Cynthia takes a liking to

alcohol (9)

13 Here’s some fruit.

Disapprove? Blow it! (9) 17 Don’t worry, it’s right to

break an axle (5)

19 Edna’s out in the

mountains (5)

20 A song from Cyril (5) 21 Money for some tobacco (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Wreckage (6)

4 Ravel (6)

7 Aid (4)

8 Blocking one’s

passage (2,3,3) 9 Exhausts (7)

12 Spoil (3)

14 Beast (6) 15 Loathsome (6) 16 Epoch (3)

18 Pills (7)

22 Wallow (8)

23 Jetty (4)

24 Going out (6) 25 Crisp salad plant (6)

DOWN

1 Dry out (9)

2 Classical dancer (9) 3 Rapid (5)

4 Church tax (5)

5 Want (4)

6 S. American mammal (5) 10 Braid (5)

11 Move crabwise (5) 12 Illegally made liquor (9) 13 Soft fruit (9)

17 Slacken (5)

19 S. American mountains (5) 20 Words of song (5)

21 £1 (4) ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER