TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Bound in leather? (8)

5 See a bird overhead! (4)

8 A blue shade (4)

9 Very high possibility of

making the winter go badly (8) 10 Well-organised ring road to

maybe rely on (7)

12 Name of a famous

trumpeter (5)

13 The wrong thing to be up

to (2,4)

15 Long, strong form of

washer (6)

17 A board game! (5)

18 What a smoker uses when out of position, out of breath (7)

22 Ring the Editor and get

arrested (8)

23 A naval body’s football

team? (4)

24 Just a short line, being

in a rush? (4)

25 What it is when you hit

the big time (5,3)

DOWN 1 Unfasten in various ways,

late on (7)

2 Possibly drove around

Dover? (5)

3 A bit of a bloomer (5) 4 She’ll give you a start (4) 6 Is a poet demented by

drugs? (7)

7 Drink left to mature at

summer’s end (5)

11 More or less spacious

moors, perhaps (5) 12 Beauty with a heart of

stone (5)

14 All-round wear for women (7) 16 A percentage of the top

people? (7)

17 Took great risks coldheartedly? (5)

19 Move edgily when crabby? (5) 20 On paper, perhaps, plump

as a robin? (5)

21 A green jumper (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Held by binding (8) 5 Hood (4)

8 Dark blue (4)

9 Very tall (8) 10 Systematic (7)

12 “--- Ustinov” (5) 13 Useless (2,4)

15 Big rope (6)

17 Pub game (5) 18 Smoker’s receptacle (7) 22 Grabbed (8)

23 Main body of ship (4) 24 Sprint (4)

25 Special occasion (5,3)

DOWN 1 Daylight’s end (7) 2 Roamed (5)

3 Flower part (5) 4 Beginning (4)

6 Drugs (7)

7 Beer (5)

11 Apartments (5)

12 A fruit (5)

14 Encircles (7) 16 Sovereignty (7)

17 Cut into “cubes” (5) 19 Go edgewise (5) 20 Circular (5) 21 Web-footed creature (4)