TWO-WAY TEASER
TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Lots of money for music (8) 5 Napoleonic game? (4) 8 Jokes that leave one
speechless? (4)
9 Van heard moving around
outside the house (8) 10 Stinkers going from bad
to worse (7)
12 Knock down the little
woman, alternatively (5) 13 Cut short in port (6)
15 Dad gets accustomed
to being delayed (6)
17 Old man’s beard, say (5) 18 Degree of indisposition? (7) 22 Diana’s inconstant loves
melt away (8)
23 Agitate in jug (4)
24 The lady sounds a bit
reluctant! (4)
25 In movies, we get tough,
being so loveless (8)
DOWN
1 Reckoned to have fired
about half the guns (7) 2 Correct girth maybe (5)
3 Lady Guinevere’s firm
refusal (5)
4 A certain cunning ruse (4) 6 Mature chaps who
contradict themselves (3,4) 7 Different from the northern
part, possibly (5)
11 It happens to be a key
opening (5)
12 So feeble as to fail outright (5) 14 Having the quality, I see,
to be enduringly great (7) 16 Abandons infertile areas (7) 17 Ed gets a friend out of
a rat-trap, perhaps (5) 19 Looks amorous, dancing reels (5)
20 Write in for some Aberdeen
terriers (5)
21 Strikingly high wind? (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Vast sums (8)
5 Kind of whist (4) 8 Jokes (4)
9 Open porch (8) 10 Cads (7)
12 Storey (5)
13 Moored (6) 15 Hesitated (6)
17 Set to grow (5) 18 Ailment (7)
22 Melt (8)
23 Move (4)
24 Chance (4) 25 Cowboy films (8)
DOWN
1 Calculated (7) 2 Correct (5)
3 At no time (5) 4 Positive (4) 6 Former pupils (3,4) 7 Alternative (5) 11 Occurrence (5) 12 Weak (5) 14 Immortal (7) 16 Abandons (7) 17 Foot lever (5) 19 Ogles (5)
20 Go in (5)
21 Puff (4)