TWO-WAY TEASER
Two sets of clues but the answers are the same
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Fellow taking on an opera (5)
4 The part of the daffodil that
gets blown (7)
8 Thrashed by Ma, blasted
too! (9)
9 Tree that’s sported to keep
visitors out at university (3)
10 It is charged by one on-side
like this (7)
12 Settle in one’s country
home? (4)
14 Publication of insurrection
hasn’t been begun (7)
17 Put it out it’s time to make
a comeback (4)
18 Parcel one can make of a
copy (7)
20 Either way, voice one’s
impatience (3)
21 To mediate with the centre,
I’d turn east (9)
23 So Kerry gets upset by such
deliveries (7)
24 Occasions when one takes out the Ides and the Nones (5)
DOWN
1 Mule lent filly some change in
a sweet-sounding way (13)
2 Calling man over, with gin
cocktail (6)
3 Driver’s left here, close to the
team (8)
4 A small drink is nothing, with
an abstainer around (3)
5 Our duty it is to show a lan
guage from the East (4)
6 Had a dig in an exploratory
way (6)
7 The Shrew, Kate, Tate showed
what to do at spa (4,3,6)
11 Put one off a little inside
terrain (5)
13 It is likened to card poem was
written about (8)
15 A senior nurse is not an only
child (6)
16 How to make film straight to
the point (6)
19 Fish for an old weapon (4)
22 It is shortened, I first having
left it (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Opera by Massenet (5)
4 Brass instrument (7)
8 Given a beating (9)
9 Tree (3)
10 (Particle) electrically
charged (7)
12 Chair (4)
14 A particular issue of a
book (7)
17 Send, give out (4)
18 A duplicate (7)
20 Express impatience or
disapproval (3)
21 Act as a peacemaker (9)
23 Bowling deliveries pitching
under the bat (7)
24 Fruit of a palm (5)
DOWN
1 In a honey-sounding
manner (13)
2 Nominating (6)
3 Driver’s, rider’s left (8)
4 A toddler (3)
5 Pakistan language (4)
6 Made a searching
investigation (6)
7 Have treatment at a spa (4,3,6)
11 Frighten one off (5)
13 Likened (8) 15 A nun (6)
16 To guide, order (6)
19 A freshwater fish (4)
22 Contraction of ‘it is’ (3)