TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Giving Shrove a false aspect by being somewhat drunk (3-4-4) 8 Invasion of Normandy by a feudal superior (8) 9 Wife in Germany who didn’t complete the deception (4) 11 Go and get the football club to change (5) 12 Maintain that one will be a contestant (7) 13 Carbon will demand a hoop-bound container (4) 15 It’s not the true story of the army with fifty percent losses (4) 19 How each vie to get their goal (7) 20 Lozenge shape in orb Her Majesty used (5) 22 Some of it is said lying in a nonchalant way (4) 23 The taking on of a top don one can arrange (8) 24 Flower earning widespread praise before lunch (7-5)

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2 It is about Anne turning on first tap (5) 3 Hit fly for being so very dirty (6) 4 Take it from the right niche and it will make one wealthy (6) 5 It is a sort of entertainment (7) 6 Has already turned the corner, and is mad (5,3,4) 7 Chinese philosophy can, if no music is available for it (12) 10 An American city – whichever (3) 14 An academic who may have won a bursary (7) 16 It’s not many Fahrenheit we are up to (3) 17 An old sailor who aged so badly (3-3) 18 Short screw the Spanish take to drive one forward (6) 21 What basket-maker needs is for sock supplier to lose his head (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Half drunk (4-4-4) 8 Codename for WW2 Normandy invasion (8) 9 Woman, wife in Germany (4) 11 Bring, go and get (5) 12 Maintain in dispute (7) 13 Container of staves bound in hoops (4) 15 Legend (4) 19 Bring to successful conclusion (7) 20 Lozenge shape (5) 22 Off-handedly (4) 23 The taking on (as child) as one’s own (8) 24 Ipomoea (7-5)

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2 Concerning (5) 3 Extremely soiled (6) 4 Make opulent (6) 5 Vaudeville (7) 6 Crazy, mad (5,3,4) 7 A Chinese philosophy (12) 10 Some, whatever amount (3) 14 Learned person, an academic (7) 16 Small in number (3) 17 An old salt, sailor (3-3) 18 To drive forward (6) 21 Willow twig (5)