TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 7 Remorseful prisoner

gets banal (8)

8 Day for fruit (4)

9 Fellow takes church

viewpoint (6) 10 Avaricious German gets

thin (6)

11 Note on strange

instrument (4)

12 Spanish entertainer

rushed on wrong road (8) 14 The usual flag (8) 18 Catch the wrong part (4) 20 Informant at the bank (6) 22 Ran back with argument

that was limited (6) 23 Eager sort of diva (4) 24 Foreign bridge suffered

raid (8)

DOWN 1 Caretaker’s beer (6) 2 Amaze tenor and fellow

performer (8)

3 Lead straight (6)

4 Cleric on the edge to

the right (6)

5 Lied about being lazy (4) 6 Move Sid out of his flat (6) 13 A drug made of alien

rock (8)

15 Number get sentimental

about student victory (6) 16 Stop and apprehend (6) 17 Prohibition puts deal in

trouble (6)

19 A group of directors on the vessel (6) 21 Cover old pool (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

7 Sorry, full of regret (8) 8 Appointment (4) 9 Attitude, position (6) 10 Gluttonous (6) 11 Percussion instrument (4) 12 Bullfighter (8)

14 Normal (8)

18 Snare (4)

20 Cashier (6)

22 Restricted (6)

23 Keen, fanatical (4) 24 European (8)

DOWN 1 Doorman (6)

2 Action actor (8) 3 Straightforward (6) 4 Church official (6) 5 Unoccupied (4) 6 Artist’s room (6) 13 Celestial body (8) 15 Dozen (6)

16 Take into custody (6) 17 Refusal (6)

19 On a ship (6) 21 Swimming pool (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS:

1 Berlin, 4 Direct, 7 Aide, 8 Variable, 9 Cutlass, 12 Act, 14 Eclair, 15 Debris, 16 Tad, 18 Theatre, 22 Windfall, 23 Beat, 24 Celery, 25 Stitch.

DOWN: 1 Black belt, 2 Ridiculed, 3 Novel, 4 Darts, 5 Real, 6 Colic, 10 Taint, 11 Sweet, 12 Agreement, 13 Test match, 17 Agile, 19 Heavy, 20 Atlas, 21 Edge.