TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Rodent – one about to get food allowance (6)

4 Hang around, say, with heavy load (6)

7 Father with right piece (4) 8 Terrible liar – tree seller (8)

9 A lab Reg converted for branch of

mathematics (7) 12 Naughty inferior (3)

14 See pal upset when slumbering (6) 15 Perform a service for big Leo, possibly (6) 16 Reserves, Northern, becoming brown (3) 18 Predicament for two women going round lake (7) 22 Round letter? (8)

23 Six students initially needing a passport

endorsement (4)

24 Rise, say, in agreement (6)

25 Cross-breed taken in by shy bridegroom (6)

DOWN

1 Damaging net, parent is remorseful (9)

2 I turn a pal out with heavy-duty waterproof

fabric (9)

3 Norwegian in minor series (5)

4 Man serving at table without one

needing liquid (5) 5 Plant from Eire, mostly (4) 6 Hothead with Japanese money and

a doglike animal (5) 10 Consented, though not at first,

showing gluttony (5) 11 Photograph book for a pound

supplied with hesitation (5) 12 Officer upsetting a big rider (9) 13 Ideal place for doctor and strange

mean lad (9)

17 A learner – one with a second

false name (5)

19 Bay identified in main letter (5) 20 Soil from fox’s hole (5)

21 A chapter on the man with pain (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Fixed allowance (6)

4 Heaviness (6)

7 Piece (4)

8 Seller (8)

9 Branch of mathematics (7) 12 Rotten (3)

14 Slumbering (6)

15 Do a favour to (6)

16 Brown (3)

18 Quandary (7) 22 Round (8)

23 Passport endorsement (4) 24 Agree (6)

25 Cross-breed (6)

DOWN

1 Remorseful (9) 2 Heavy-duty waterproof

cloth (9)

3 Norwegian (5)

4 Colourless liquid (5) 5 Coloured part of eye (4) 6 ‘Laughing’ animal (5) 10 Gluttony (5)

11 Blank book for

photographs (5)

12 Officer above colonel (9) 13 Imaginary place (9)

17 False name (5)

19 Small bay (5)

20 Ground (5)

21 Dull pain (4)

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same ANSWERS TOMORROW