TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Made to suffer faithfully

(before canonisation?) (8)

5 Talks informally of a fishy film (4)

8 Put to flight right away (4)

9 Maybe he hears what a number wildly resent! (8)

10 With many snakes, they’re on board for a game! (7)

12 Meet the cost of higher wages? (3,2)

13 Score about a hundred in the game (6)

15 Can it provide twice as much exercise as a bike? (6)

17 A tram’s revolutionary new design (5)

18 Got wet at work (7)

22 Barriers occasioning bitter complaints? (8)

23 New cafe front (4)

24 Might it mean “sing wildly”? (4)

25 Professes to revise tenders, on the quiet (8)

DOWN

1 Rolling stones (7)

2 One in the ring, aptly

enough? (5)

3 The governor presumably knows where to draw the line (5)

4 Run a trading centre like a hotel (4)

6 Resentful of being done any

wrong (7)

7 The little bit possibly

salvaged? (5)

11 Yet finished last is what can happen (5)

12 Put decorative fabric on the piano (5)

14 Using tongs for sport? (7)

16 The mess daft Dan is in, due to sheer folly! (7)

17 Might they blemish one’s tally of points? (5)

19 We sat around getting no proper employment (5)

20 Mark two! (5)

21 At this game, identical twins can make you cry! (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Killed for one’s faith (8)

5 Chats, informally (4)

8 Utter defeat (4)

9 Hearer (8)

10 Climbing aids (7)

12 Settle bills (3,2)

13 Football (6)

15 Bicycle for two (6)

17 French revolutionary (5)

18 Perspired (7)

22 Barriers (8)

23 Dial (4)

24 Indication (4)

25 Feigns (8)

DOWN

1 Children’s game (7)

2 Spherical (5) 3 Governor (5)

4 Sprint (4)

6 Vexed (7)

7 Fight (5)

11 Occurrence (5)

12 Location (5)

14 Sport played on ice (7)

16 Insanity (7)

17 Blemishes (5)

19 Misuse (5)

20 Mark ---, author (5)

21 Photo (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER