TWO WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Reveal a disastrous dice loss! (8)

5 Imitated a cow, we hear, having the inclination (4) 8 Piece of food that may spoil a dish (4)

9 Actor due to become a teacher (8)

10 Show keenness perhaps to see about arranging a hunt (7)

12 National roll? (5) 13 Merely a letter to make a suggestion (6) 15 Delights in manipulating levers (6)

17 An advantage as specified (5)

18 See a tradesman for informal talk (7)

22 Being green, not a genuine stone? (8) 23 Soon a bit of a nonentity as an author? (4) 24 Possessing the wisdom

of the ages? (4)

25 A prime requirement for

divorce (8)

DOWN

1 Devilish good novelist! (7)

2 It’ll go round the waist and more (5)

3 Starts making love to writers (5)

4 They can’t fly me back to the States (4)

6 Like a broadcast concerning the team dismissed? (7)

7 Typically a local game (5) 11 Lacking enlightenment? (5)

12 City the Aisne could flow into? (5)

14 Horse that has to be a broken-down nag? (7) 16 Unusual collection of garnets (7)

17 Dunces in class, especially? (5)

19 One fond of Shanks’s

pony? (5)

20 Got an anagram for a Commonwealth country (5) 21 Fateful change of

mood (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Reveal (8)

5 State of mind (4) 8 Broken fragment (4) 9 Teacher (8) 10 Rhapsodise (7) 12 Helvetian (5)

13 Merely (6)

15 Festivities (6) 17 Valuable possession (5) 18 Babble (7) 22 Irish emblem (8) 23 Soon (4) 24 Profoundly wise (4) 25 Wedded state (8)

DOWN

1 Charles, novelist (7) 2 Feminine garment (5) 3 Unfolds (5)

4 Flightless birds (4) 6 Exterior (7)

7 Dashes (5)

11 Without illumination (5) 12 Italian city (5) 14 American horse (7) 16 Unusual (7)

17 Donkeys (5)

19 Pleasure walker (5) 20 The Friendly Islands (5) 21 Terrible fate (4)