TWO-WAY TEASER
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 It’s a high-priest’s business to sound pompous (11) 8 Boss crow about if one had a quarrel with it (8) 9 Shout of encouragement to the right rower (4) 10 Open country for a former MP (5) 13 Almost put down the words for a formal document (4) 16 Word for an eft not used before end of August (4) 17 Cosy way gats are put back (4) 18 Don’t start to tease one’s relative (4) 20 Where cuts were made, they form strike-breakers (5) 24 A ten-foot, sour-tempered person (4) 25 Decent room furnishings are nothing to us (8) 26 How to marry me to a monarch with such revelry (11)
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2 It gives orchestra an A and two Os to be upset about (4) 3 What the tongue perceives is a matter of discrimination (5) 4 His cart may keep the milkman buoyant (5) 5 It points to war, or finished it where Harold was concerned (5) 6 Profession that counts where books are concerned (11) 7 Chief actor will go on, its part being written out (11) 11 Oh, dear! One is taken in by an alternative name (5) 12 Red dye occurs in lichen naturally (5) 14 Hurry to get first step up the ladder (4) 15 Pen, perhaps, whose song is her last (4) 19 Bar to be played by a small drum (5) 21 The best dairy product (5) 22 Will get out in the way of flat building (5) 23 Grumble at nothing when a fellow is around (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Be pompous; perform office of high-priest (11) 8 Quarrel-firing weapon (8) 9 Sound as a lion (4) 10 Barren open country (5) 13 Legal, formal document (4) 16 Tailed amphibian (4) 17 Sheltered, comfortable (4) 18 Female relative (4) 20 Scoundrels, blacklegs (5) 24 Wild apple (4) 25 Seemly, decent (8) 26 Festival, merry entertainment (11)
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2 Woodwind instrument (4) 3 Flavour (5) 4 Be buoyed up (5) 5 A pointer (5) 6 Profession of auditor (11) 7 Chief actor, character, participant (11) 11 An assumed name (5) 12 Reddish-orange nail-, hair-dye (5) 14 Ladder step (4) 15 Aquatic bird (4) 19 Small drum played accompanying pipe (5) 21 Off-white (5) 22 Building component (5) 23 Lament; grumble (4)