TWO-WAY TEASER
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Collection of odds and ends Lea can smile about (11) 8 With ten-tenths cloud, it’s votes car needs (8)
9 Trade union repeatedly produces skirt for dancer (4) 10 Sort of skating out of Paris (5) 13 The loot from the manor
house, we hear (4)
16 Can hold hydrogen, if skinny
(4)
17 The West, to his confusion, is
father to the thought (4)
18 Does it confuse such poetry? (4) 20 Am now taking orders from
her (5)
24 Advantage one has in being
a seed, generally (4)
25 A hydrant in the Gulf, ripe for
development (8)
26 Equestrianism is a regular
pursuit, dressed in this (6,5)
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2 What occurs to one Gilbertian
Princess about the East (4)
3 Company repeatedly needing
a hot drink (5)
4 Light beam put up in picture
salon (5)
5 Is not going to church to mark
the score (5)
6 Psychologically prepared, once
it did no different (11)
7 Get to end of difficulty as with
hyphen it cleans gun (4,7)
11 Member of wife’s family
working as a solicitor? (2-3)
12 Bad weather on street or
motorway (5)
14 Indigo shows no goals after a
start (4)
15 It’s as plain as a fish on the
staff (4)
19 A mount set out on end with
out a middle (5)
21 Ring the flyer when unpaid (5) 22 Where sport takes place in a
square, naturally (5)
23 Evil comes out of the swamp
in South Africa (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 A collection of different things
(11)
8 Completely clouded (8)
9 Dancer’s short skirt (4)
10 Couples (5)
13 Drag (4)
16 Lean (4)
17 Have a desire (for) (4)
18 Lyric poems (4)
20 Adult female (5)
24 Rim (4)
25 Street hydrant (US) (8)
26 Horsewoman’s outfit (6,5)
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2 Notion (4)
3 Chocolate-based drink (5)
4 Surgery beam (5)
5 Indentation (5)
6 Being put into the required
state (11)
7 Make a dramatic recovery (4,7) 11 Related by marriage (2-3)
12 Thundery weather (5)
14 Indigo plant (4)
15 Sharp medieval weapon (4)
19 Swift horse (5)
21 Due (5)
22 Place of public contest (5)
23 Low marshy ground (SA) (4)