TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Restrict a food container (6) 4 Christmas present 45 inches

long (6)

7 Fifty-first on the roll (4) 8 They go up with inflation (8) 9 Incorrect in angle? (7)

12 Do one’s hair for a party (3) 14 Not in appropriate

costume (6)

15 Before long a number

enter the bar (6)

16 Girl in a river (3)

18 Fight and argue to get

the bird (7)

22 Crazy for biscuits (8)

23 Bird and some fruit (4) 24 Sort of spirit produced

by Noel Coward (6) 25 Maintain there’s some

body in the beer (6)

DOWN

1 Source of Christmas

decorations in California (9) 2 Stole time off – the

parasite! (9)

3 Dressin’ the bird (5)

4 It’s found in many London

shops (5)

5 Where to find a tree for

the golf club? (4)

6 Cut open and clean

around (5)

10 Arise, perhaps, to see

a heavenly sign (5)

11 A girl whisks egg white (5) 12 Odd show I went to see

– a pantomime (4,5)

13 Fruit from the Argentine (9) 17 Record list (5)

19 A portion of meat pie

– certainly (5)

20 Religious follower of

a star, perhaps (5)

21 Tail cut to a point (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Picnic basket (6) 4 Christmas (6) 7 Catalogue (4) 8 Inflatable items (8) 9 Penchant (7)

12 Fixed (3)

14 Kit (6)

15 Bar (6)

16 River (3)

18 Small bird (7) 22 Unsweetened biscuits (8) 23 New Zealand bird (4) 24 Cheerful (6)

25 Assert (6)

DOWN

1 US film centre (9)

2 Evergreen plant (9) 3 Redbreast (5)

4 Man-made material (5) 5 Forest (4)

6 Spear (5)

10 Zodiac sign (5)

11 White of egg (5)

12 Fairy tale character (4,5) 13 Citrus fruit (9)

17 Register (5)

19 Portion (5)

20 Follower of Haile Selassie (5) 21 Tail of deer (4)