TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 More reckless with bacon slice? (6) 4 Wine flask a royal found in small

restaurant (6)

7 Man from valley (4)

8 Worker giving party with hesitation (8) 9 Drink, cold, taken by the woman’s tutor (7) 12 Part of wood decidedly strange (3) 14 Eccentric rode in when pressed (6) 15 Newspaper boss, unusually tired,

receiving ring (6)

16 Amusing entertainer concealing

information (3)

18 Remove imitation (4-3)

22 European pairs Dan confused (8) 23 Unbiased blonde (4)

24 Second record with an advertising

phrase (6)

25 Puzzle involving unusual red lid (6)

DOWN

1 Correct part of building used by

Conservative (5-4)

2 Vegetable stew crone ruined (9)

3 Memento, the Spanish one, pocketed

by Catholic (5)

4 Cold expert with thick rope (5)

5 Heavy defeat involving ringleader,

old-fashioned (4)

6 Competitors using meadow (5)

10 Skilled egghead in commercial with pint (5) 11 Man with energy initially organizing cowboy’s

display (5)

12 Head of organization with unusually fat

hound, uncontrolled (3,2,4)

13 Secretive person, brunette, with husky,

say (4,5)

17 Throw out fish, about 10, soft (5)

19 A win once more (5)

20 Eastern one with the German duck (5) 21 Comfortable head of school with pistol,

upset (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Bacon slice (6) 4 Wine flask (6) 7 Valley (4)

8 Manual worker (8) 9 Instructor (7) 12 Strange (3) 14 Pressed (6) 15 Newspaper boss (6) 16 Information (3)

18 Imitation (4-3) 22 European (8)

23 Just (4)

24 Advertising phrase (6) 25 Conundrum (6)

1 Conservative (5-4) 2 Kind of maize (9)

3 Memento (5)

4 Thick rope (5)

5 Heavy defeat (4)

6 Meadow (5)

10 Skilled (5)

11 Cowboys’ display (5) 12 Beyond control (3,2,4)

13 Secretive person (4,5) 17 Drive out (5)

19 Once more (5) 20 Duck (5)

21 Cosy (4)