TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Bachelor arriving with the

Spanish keg (6)

4 Risk making Democrat

rage (6)

7 Clever graduate backing the

French (4)

8 Eccentric urges one to be

open-handed (8)

9 Badly cut, some dress (7) 12 Ancient ring left with head

of department (3) 14 Exhilarated man going

round after the usual time (6) 15 Eccentric mowed a field (6) 16 Add dram (3)

18 Unrestricted head of school

– one with a plant (7) 22 Bachelor, e.g., with the queen going round pub with novice (8)

23 First of bishops elderly

and courageous (4) 24 Celebrity, cold and hard,

using fabric stiffener (6) 25 Refuse group of offspring (6)

DOWN

1 Judo expert left in rear hit

hard (5,4)

2 Unwilling to give strange

Celt a turn (9)

3 Blond with lamp (5)

4 I’m after man supplying

fabric (5)

5 No room is standard (4) 6 Some of the qualifiers,

evenly balanced (5) 10 Quiet sprite using ledge (5) 11 Odds for woman with

points (5)

12 Funny duo, not mad, with

person who’s different (3,3,3) 13 Odd new urn broken in

Australia (4,5)

17 Finished on time, it’s open

to view (5)

19 Rushed chapter revealing

US farm (5)

20 Loner’s strange register (5) 21 Jetty used by nobleman,

say (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Keg (6)

4 Peril (6)

7 Clever (4)

8 Open-handed (8)

9 Outfit (7)

12 Aged (3) 14 Exhilarated (6) 15 Field (6)

16 Child (3)

18 Plant (7)

22 Novice (8) 23 Courageous (4) 24 Fabric stiffener (6)

25 Rubbish (6)

DOWN

1 Karate expert (5,4) 2 Unwilling (9)

3 Pale (5)

4 Jeans fabric (5) 5 Average standard (4)

6 The same (5) 10 Ledge (5)

11 Betting odds (5) 12 Person differing from

others (3,3,3)

13 In Australia (4,5) 17 Apparent (5)

19 US farm (5)

20 Enlist (5)

21 Jetty (4)