TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Person only comparatively unfamiliar? (8)

5 For whom the cost varies (could even be free!) (4)

8 Everything may be left to him (4)

9 With whom a soldier shares his troubles? (8)

10 It stands monumentally high (7)

12 Quick way to get fit, possibly (5)

13 He should have kept his hair on! (6)

15 Face with merely skin-deep beauty (6)

17 Apt to order a boy out of a ship (5)

18 Matches the lovely girls gathered around the piano (3,4)

22 Rooms legally occupied (8)

23 At which to play a lone hand? (4)

24 The ship had cast off (4)

25 Thus, in dire need, showed keen appreciation (8)

DOWN

1 Instructs the boys at poker (7)

2 Might it flow over stone? (5)

3 Such a mistress can presumably be fun (5)

4 Is it unwise to come out in one? (4)

6 Vessel used by a woman at church (7)

7 Birds do so very little during a race (5)

11 It comes from elephants or is found in a plant (5)