TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Musicians, old and evidently injured (8) 5 A spot of bother for the twins (4) 8 Watch your head! (4) 9 Dislike of one rendition (8) 10 They can sing and sometimes whistle (7) 12 Crazy about Dorothy? (5) 13 The Arabian ones are strange things (6) 15 It’s nice for the French to start a fire (6) 17 Where New Yorkers may be born to kiss? (5) 18 Compensates for lack of natural beauty (5,2) 22 Does he manage deviously to keep things running? (8) 23 If you’ll listen, he has a warm heart (4) 24 It may be a piece of cake (4) 25 Like a crab, moves unsteadily round the residents’ centre (8)

DOWN

1 Awkward fellow apt to collide with people? (7) 2 Nine players with nothing behind the goal (5) 3 A girl’s name for elegance (5) 4 Act up again (4) 6 When excluded, ring Tim up before Ted (7) 7 It’s sweet, darling (5) 11 In rubber production, is tardy and cross (5) 12 It can be cool and refreshing, note, on ice (5) 14 She’s in a state! (7) 16 No longer safe havens for goods sent abroad (7) 17 Start and finish benders with alcoholic drinks (5) 19 Dried out an excellent colour (5) 20 City the Aisne flows around? (5) 21 Eleven supporters (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Dressed, as wounds (8) 5 The two (4) 8 Intellect (4) 9 Repugnance (8) 10 Boiling-vessels (7) 12 Potty (5) 13 Dark times (6) 15 Set alight (6) 17 Borough of N.Y.C. (5) 18 Composes (5,2) 22 Mechanic (8) 23 Listen to (4) 24 Thick slice (4) 25 Edgewise (8)

DOWN

1 Yokel (7) 2 Composition for nine (5) 3 Elegance (5) 4 Thing done (4) 6 Left out (7) 7 Sweetness (5) 11 Plant juice (5) 12 Imbibe (5) 14 “Sweet --- Brown” (7) 16 Sells abroad (7) 17 Malt liquors (5) 19 Ventilated (5) 20 Italian city (5) 21 Lower limbs (4)