TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Like the doomed days of one with no feeling for the wild deer? (8)

5 A word to hiss at pussy? (4) 8 On which Lois laboured as a

land girl? (4)

9 Where there’s a tree next to a

haystack (8)

10 Quotation from an old

religious treatise (7) 12 Accepted with thanks by a

little boy (5)

13 Much bobbing about by an

agile ape (6)

15 One of the more able

workers (6)

17 Operation that’s hard work (5) 18 Vain order to be sparing with

materials (7)

22 Where removal men can grab

a quick meal (8)

23 Was obliged, outright, to be

tough! (4)

24 Some may be goggled at in

Dorset Square (4)

25 They’re safer with pins in (8)

DOWN

1 Cash reserved for something

to eat at home (4,3)

2 Like the dew on love-in-amist (5)

3 Reminder of the past that can

give clerics new heart (5) 4 Cash enabling me to go with

a girl (4)

6 A game little creature (7) 7 Something significant to

know (5)

11 Float free, high in the air (5) 12 It’s a twist when only half the

team are out to win! (5) 14 Hinge’s fitting associate (7) 16 Lives with wild desires (7)

17 Stage entrances? (5) 19 Name in fashion (5) 20 Animal from an Eastern

country? (5)

21 A minor branch, you

understand (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Marked with figures (8) 5 Buzz off! (4)

8 Earth (4)

9 Comic verse (8)

10 Take out (7)

12 Removed (5)

13 An ape (6)

15 Physically better (6) 17 Corrupt practice (5) 18 Unavailing (7) 22 Chinese-style fast food (8)

23 Difficult (4) 24 Complete groups (4) 25 Hand bombs (8)

DOWN

1 Savings (4,3)

2 Damp (5)

3 Keepsake (5)

4 Ten cents (4) 6 Summer sport (7) 7 Symbol (5) 11 Overhead (5) 12 Strong thread (5) 14 L-shaped support (7) 16 Dwells (7) 17 Entrances (5) 19 Manner (5)

20 African antelope (5) 21 Small branch (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER