TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 It’s a way they have in rural

areas (7,4) 8 A bodily part that has its

pipes? (5) 9 Was extravagant, and had it

on the stove too long (7) 10 Seeing that the Sappers are

free of pretence (7) 11 Such a note as is to be played

with elegance (5) 12 Is giving voice to a

proverb (6) 14 Loves to give a party with

almost all the others (6) 18 When he is taken in by the

Persian he won’t play fair (5) 19 The Navy is upset about the church getting nothing but fish (7) 21 Turned aside blow from 22,

dire as it might have been (7) 23 Is too large to be among the

last three of those (5) 24 The phrase RIP is a roundabout way of saying it (11)

DOWN

1 Picks and hoes used with

lettuce (7) 2 Pressing condition with gun

the East cry out for (7) 3 Get in a muddle as to the

suffusion of colour (5) 4 The old sign for people of

small estate (6) 5 Gave out that it was vindicat

ed by mixing with 6 (7) 6 One left a girl as a

consequence (3) 7 Attached strip to an

unfinished account book (5) 13 A more neatly dressed French

artist (7) 15 Or, tries to sort out the

disturbers of the peace (7) 16 Fling a cape to show the coy

state one’s in (7) 17 It’s a difficult ascent, if one’s

poor (4,2) 18 A table bird for one who’s not

bare-headed (5) 20 The body of singers in part of

the church (5) 22 Tell one off with a blow over

the knuckles (3)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Narrow, rustic road (7,4) 8 Instrument with manuals (5) 9 Carried it too far (7) 10 Unfeigned (7) 11 Short prayer before eating (5) 12 An adage (6) 14 Loves, worships (6) 18 Practise deception, fraud (5) 19 Small Mediterranean fish (7) 21 Warded, turned aside blow (7) 23 Abnormally fat (5) 24 A round-about expression (11)

DOWN

1 Selects (7) 2 Pressing insistence (7) 3 To tint, colour (5) 4 Beefeaters (6) 5 Took vengeance on (7) 6 Terminate (3) 7 A shelf-like projection (5) 13 Soft blue named after French

painter (7) 15 Those making civil

disturbance (7) 16 Retiring quality (7) 17 Impoverished (4,2) 18 Male table-bird (5) 20 Church singers (5) 22 A sharp blow (3)