TWO-WAY TEASER
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Total air CID controlled was overbearing (11) 8 Let no rat be put out if willing
to put up with it (8) 9 How to dirty the earth (4) 10 Line angler uses soundly musician will put above the stave (5) 13 A notorious fiddler watched his capital going up in smoke (4) 16 Is ready with a quick answer when in the lending library (4) 17 Nothing could replace the
head of 13 (4) 18 Be inclined to watch over
one’s flock (4) 20 Is new to it, and
impertinent (5) 24 It may be quick, but it’s
securely held (4) 25 Getting over obstacle by
finding space in the wood (8) 26 Coroner sent out for something of prime importance (11)
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2 Simply tick over in unpaid
leisure-time (4) 3 Trees are treated thus, in
brief (5) 4 Get in a sort of suffusion (5) 5 Ben is perhaps confused with
another playwright (5) 6 It’s not crooked, but not up
to standard right away (8,3) 7 Vital fluid, more yellow than usual, may give one the pip (5,6) 11 Lamentation for Reg if he’s
put out (5) 12 High feature would need
second letter ahead to get across (5) 14 It is always lasting, like the flower that doesn’t fade (4) 15 To put one’s name to it may
be ominous (4) 19 Could so put one off mine as to make up one’s mind (5) 21 It is right to follow regulation with a straightedge (5) 22 It is inclined to be a way of looking at something (5) 23 One in his pride, a person
much sought after (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Authoritarian (11) 8 Indulgent (8) 9 The mould in which plants
grow (4) 10 Short line above or below
the stave (5) 13 A notorious Emperor of
Rome (4) 16 Smooth-tongued (4) 17 End of the countdown (4) 18 To look after (4) 20 New-laid (5) 24 Time without food (4) 25 Open stretch in a forest (8) 26 Vital building block (11)
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2 Doing no work (4) 3 Brief (5) 4 Impart slight colour to (5) 5 Norwegian dramatist (5) 6 Without hesitation (8,3) 7 Fruit red-tinted (5,6) 11 Woe (5) 12 High pressure feature (5) 14 Eternally (4) 15 An indication (4) 19 Frighten one from (5) 21 A monarch (5) 22 Be inclined (5) 23 Leo (4)