TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Jane has absolute power

over South East Asian (8) 5 Watch your head! (4)

8 One is able to note its

flexibility (4)

9 An illegal fence (8)

10 To make a friend with Vera possibly involves much talk (7)

12 Where, in France, a

standard exists (5)

13 Is she a cat to a young

fellow? (6)

15 If slumbering, please

disturb (6)

17 Island providing one with a

kind of whiskey (5)

18 A Church dignitary’s quiet

associate (7)

22 Old Bob is no longer in

circulation (8)

23 It has some envisaged use

in trowel (4) 24 Said to raise what’s light (4) 25 On court, could she be

called Crystal? (4,4)

DOWN

1 Big prize, or a vessel for

tar (7)

2 Flat enclosed area – for a

game? (5)

3 Spooky series about Egypt

is endless (5)

4 Every fruit has a penny

off (4)

6 In poetry, contrarily

transposed (7)

7 A board game! (5)

11 Could one play on her like a

violin? (5)

12 Dad’s way is

old-fashioned (5)

14 Have a soothing effect if in a

girl’s embrace (7) 16 Continue generally to be the

winner (7)

17 Skinflint able to be very

unhappy (5)

19 Fine fellows raising their

beer (5)

20 In defence, assertion of absence has some sibilance, somehow (5) 21 One of a number used in

rock climbing (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 From Tokyo (8) 5 Intellect (4)

8 Source of sugar (4) 9 Wireless apparatus (8) 10 Discussion (7)

12 French capital (5) 13 Hayden (6)

15 Slumbering (6) 17 Mediterranean island (5) 18 Church dignitary (7) 22 Pre-decimal coin (8) 23 Passport endorsement (4) 24 Beams of light (4)

25 Tennis court assistant (4,4) DOWN 1 Big prize (7) 2 Discussion group (5) 3 Strange (5)

4 Every (4)

6 Contrary (7)

7 A throwing game (5) 11 Stringed instrument (5) 12 Old-fashioned (5) 14 Soothe (7)

16 Be victorious (7) 17 Niggard (5)

19 Royal (5)

20 Excuse (5)

21 Arm or leg (4)