TWO-WAY TEASER

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 7 To the head of the household he’s as familiar as pet can be (13) 8 Their job is setting (11) 12 Was, equally, cut in two (6) 14 Receptacle for what’s

shelled (6) 16 Start couching lance in

order to cross it off (6) 18 Did see whirlpools in

variety (6) 19 Where chef is only concerned with what he can ladle? (4,7) 23 Tiny Clive isn’t disposed to

be reactionary? Yes! (13)

DOWN

1 Mineral powder used by

ancient alchemist (4) 2 A number of sheets are shuf

fled before term ends (4) 3 Yield, if one can bear the

expense (6) 4 How pure I’m turning as a

game official (6) 5 When voice is broken a lot

changes (4) 6 Get through and hand it

over (4) 9 Otherwise come down on nothing but a place in Florida (7) 10 Stand in line to greet Eve,

rice being thrown (7) 11 An invocation to a Manx cat that’s the work of a musician (4) 12 Make cuts with a

commercial sort of writer (4) 13 Before it can go up as well

as down (3) 15 Leave on the day a deity

appears (3) 17 One may have a partiality

for affection (6) 18 A private park is all one has

got (6) 19 Make a fuss with this and

dance, tuneful as it is (4) 20 It could be put with nothing

until that time (2,2) 21 Scene of industry he found

when about four (4) 22 Top of head shown up in

pictorial long-shot (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

7 Male head of family (13) 8 Type-setters (11) 12 Divided equally in two (6) 14 Holder for boiled break

fast-food (6) 16 Write off (6) 18 Circulating water

movements (6) 19 Supplier of food to the

poor (4,7) 23 Impulsively (13)

DOWN

1 A soft, white mineral (4) 2 Twenty quires (4) 3 Spare the money for (6) 4 Cricket official (6) 5 High male voice (4) 6 Succeed in test (4) 9 City in central Florida (7) 10 Take, get, catch (7) 11 Musical work (4) 12 To cut with rough blows (4) 13 Before (3) 15 A deity (3) 17 Being fond of (6) 18 One’s total possessions (6) 19 Air with words (4) 20 Engaged in doing some

thing (2,2) 21 Bee colony (4) 22 Top of head (4)