TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Miserable cads won’t change (8)

5 Hot stuff from down under (4)

8 Slow as a novice at tea making (4)

9 Possibly reads up a key part so as to advise (8)

10 The Elgar piece suffered when mutilated or misinterpreted (7)

12 The goalie likes a clean one (5)

13 offer to be gentle (6)

15 A corny version, but it’s colourful (6)

17 They come to light, naturally (5)

18 Weapon that wounded a girl (7)

22 Endless restraint, perhaps in footwear production (8)

23 Do you lose yours when

things get heated? (4)

24 Fair share for Henry, head of the family (4)

25 Took relative care of an insect on a broken reed (8)

DOWN

1 Take great pleasure in being Turkish! (7)

2 Wet stuff we confuse with art! (5)

3 Fruit put very quietly into beer (5)

4 Go and act! (4)

6 Where oscar learned about that award? (7)

7 Expert apt to be about half dead! (5)

11 Can they grow sleek? (5)

12 no great swimmer (5)

14 In this, one aims for a high goal (7)

16 Comfortably settled, as in some homely place (7)

17 A striker’s game? (5)

19 Surprising defeat, perhaps, with higher class (5)

20 Mother returns our love (5)

21 Interminable period? (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Dejected (8)

5 Volcanic matter (4)

8 Tardy (4)

9 Coax (8)

10 Misstated (7)

12 Thin layer (5)

13 Soft (6)

15 Coloured pencil (6)

17 Flying insects (5)

18 Sword (7)

22 Coaches (8)

23 Fairly cold (4)

24 Fifty per cent (4)

25 Pampered (8)

DOWN

1 Glee (7)

2 Irrigate (5)

3 Fruit (5)

4 Swivel (4)

6 School (7)

7 Skilled (5)

11 Vegetables (5)

12 Small fish (5)

14 Team game (7)

16 Lay snug (7)

17 Contest (5)

19 Spill (5)

20 Love affair (5)

21 Period at school (4)