TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Being without pity, is also without a woman (8)

5 To go and do wrong, it seems, is not bad! (4)

8 Is it put in a socket to stop the holes? (4)

9 Evidently he was also a fine father (8)

10 Unfairly handicapped, the toff suffered (7)

12 Maybe fine for the weekend, but it can be cutting (5)

13 Sublet in an unobtrusively shifty way (6)

15 Beastly boys (6)

17 Sort of tackle needed for school? (5)

18 Conveyance by trains to the capital of Turkey (7)

22 I have to cater possibly for being inventive (8)

23 Language of our dukes (4)

24 Thus, once again, is angry (4)

25 Conceivable wild bliss in a piece of poetry (8)

DOWN

1 Rep sent around, is sorry (7)

2 Tom has a rule of his own (5)

3 Bald maybe, but has excellent eyesight (5)

4 There’s plenty of water left for it to swim in (4)

6 An out-of-date prison can be the devil! (3,4)

7 A city trick (5)

11 It’s sweet to be idle on the 4th of July (5)

12 The little beast looks like Teddy (5)

14 Two creatures combine to be a regular nuisance! (7)

16 Vegetarian cutlet perhaps – an eye-opener! (7)

17 Hurries to circulate a scare (5)

19 Dances one staggers through? (5)

20 Cancel an order for curbs (5)

21 A literal misstatement with very little substance (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Unmerciful (8)

5 Not bad! (4)

8 Stopper (4)

9 Parent’s father (8)

10 Got at, disabled (7)

12 Cutter (5)

13 Not obvious (6)

15 Doglike animal (6)

17 Style of football (5)

18 Transportation (7)

22 Inventive (8)

23 Pakistani language (4)

24 Painful (4)

25 Feasible (8)

DOWN

1 Is contrite (7)

2 Hand digit (5)

3 Sharp-eyed bird (5)

4 Close securely (4)

6 Satan (3,4)

7 Evade (5)

11 Sweet on a stick (5)

12 Bearlike animal (5)

14 Anathema (7)

16 Salad plant (7)

17 Speed contests (5)

19 Spools (5)

20 Brush clean (5)

21 Slight amount (4)