TWO-WAY TEASER

TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same...

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Inoffensive suggestion that you

don’t do so much damage (8) 5 Close down dilapidated huts (4) 8 Pronouncedly low attempt to be something significant in business (4)

9 Girl’s best friend, nevertheless

like ice! (8)

10 One bird bit another (7)

12 It’s absurd to cry about a final

letter! (5)

13 Well, they aren’t slacks! (6) 15 Soft coat for someone having a

game (6)

17 Small amount of wet weather

at Gateshead (5)

18 Flier’s spear-headed missile! (7) 22 One whose porridge is in a

jug? (8)

23 Certain to confuse the user (4) 24 Run a little line (4) 25 Accommodation for noted men

in temporary shelter? (8)

DOWN

1 A swimmer of consuming

interest (7)

2 One side of a sock! (5)

3 Senior person rooted to the

spot? (5)

4 Break off the game (4)

6 Eager to consume a bit of tea

in the country (7)

7 Irascible, apt to be trying (5) 11 Taken to the interior (5) 12 Black lilac, possibly? (5) 14 They save so as to have clean

sheets (7)

16 Warm tea needs stirring if you’re going to put it in the oven! (3,4)

17 Stared open-mouthed at a

spaceman? (5) 19 Person without a swollen head,

yet a dictator! (5)

20 Excite, or maybe exploit (5) 21 Just one soldier’s outfit (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Inoffensive (8)

5 Closed (4)

8 Business emblem (4) 9 Gems (8)

10 Wading bird (7) 12 Ridiculous (5) 13 Close-fitting garments (6) 15 Game participant (6) 17 Cereal crop (5)

18 Small bird (7)

22 A convict (8)

23 Positive (4) 24 Sprint (4) 25 Apartment house (8)

DOWN 1 Flatfish (7)

2 Correct (5)

3 Senior (5)

4 Break (4)

6 Magyar land (7) 7 Peevish (5) 11 Consumed (5)

12 --- Black, TV star (5) 14 Soccer ‘keepers,

informally (7) 16 Uncooked flesh (3,4) 17 Gazed foolishly (5) 19 Surname of Evita (5) 20 Stir up (5)

21 Single element (4)