TWO- WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Like the free dollars he went

to the East for! ( 8)

5 Improve some scribbled

items ( 4)

8 Trade in old port ( 4)

9 How I long to get out of the

taxi and shelter! ( 3,5)

10 Instil the plan into bewildered

Tim ( 7)

12 Something to keep the glass

in ( 5)

13 A vessel, but understandably

no ship! ( 6)

15 A little pet, possibly a racing

greyhound? ( 6)

17 Listens to, as in rehearsal ( 5) 18 In all fairness, it’s only hard

water ( 7)

22 It’s clear they may be a variety

of things ( 8)

23 Thought to be left to go

astray ( 4)

24 Despite what we hear, this

isn’t all! ( 4)

25 How to exploit one’s craft completely ( 8)

DOWN

1 When the promising flower fails to open, you need friends ( 7)

2 Teach an illegal parker to

see the light? ( 5)

3 Rachel Entwhistle’s other

name ( 5)

4 It’s marginally useful as

a kedgeree ingredient ( 4) 6 Charged a bit indeed! ( 7) 7 Cheap or thin, rather than

canny ( 5)

11 Actually they make up more

than half the atmosphere ( 5) 12 Dramatic treatment for palsy ( 5) 14 Spirit of the opera? ( 7)

16 Very much later, perhaps,

in guilty extremes ( 7) 17 Is there a fifty- fifty chance

they may roll? ( 5)

19 Badly bothered by more

expensive TV? ( 5)

20 It’s best I give the players

a hand ( 5)

21 Unwanted piece of rifle

ammunition ( 4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Free of charge ( 8) 5 Prepare for press ( 4) 8 Trade ( 4)

9 Wooden house ( 3,5) 10 Insert ( 7)

12 Pasty substance ( 5) 13 Soda vessel ( 6)

15 Small pet ( 6)

17 Listens to ( 5)

18 Fair play ( 7) 22 Items, objects ( 8) 23 Sensed ( 4)

24 A quantity ( 4) 25 Cunningly ( 8) DOWN

1 Chums ( 7)

2 Fixing device ( 5)

3 “--- of Troy” ( 5)

4 Border ( 4)

6 Charged against account ( 7) 7 Thin, metallic ( 5)

11 Particles ( 5)

12 Has fun ( 5)

14 Ghost ( 7)

16 Very much ( 7)

17 Chiefs ( 5)

19 Spilt ( 5)

20 Optimum ( 5)

21 Agile insect ( 4)

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