TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Is to run around with a container (8) 5 Hurt a hot-headed member (4) 8 Ingredient of sausages (4) 9 Obtained from the producer (8) 10 Drunken sot, wealthy, but unable to fly (7) 12 Horrify a very soft little chap (5) 13 What the wine did when a girl got married (6) 15 Exclude any wild tree (6) 17 Fathead managing to loaf around for something to eat (5) 18 A trap that entangles the fins (7) 22 Fowl and fish, possibly ugly (8) 23 Best one for protecting the head (4) 24 The flower grew (4) 25 Changing triangle (8)

DOWN

1 Discard players on a cricket side (4,3) 2 Crazy thing one doesn’t take a light view of (5) 3 Cop it for changing the subject! (5) 4 One possibly slated for getting upset about nothing (4) 6 Wasting a cup (7) 7 This girl’s a beginner, after a fashion (5) 11 Not all ladies can be perfect (5) 12 Confession of asininity, we gather (5) 14 Whence the staff are absent getting refreshments? (7) 16 Not all that love can mean (7) 17 What we’ll have to be in future (5) 19 Sufficient metal to cast some tin gods? (5) 20 On the line, she may have a moan (5) 21 One of many once spent in Rome, for instance (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Box or case (8) 5 Injury (4) 8 Wise (4) 9 Obtained (8) 10 Flightless bird (7) 12 Dismay (5) 13 Streamed (6) 15 Indian tree (6) 17 Butcher’s items (5) 18 Open fabric (7) 22 Young waterfowl (8) 23 Pith-helmet (4) 24 Ascended (4) 25 Changing (8)

DOWN

1 Thrown away (4,3) 2 Dark time (5) 3 Subject (5) 4 House-top (4) 6 Emaciation (7) 7 Exemplary (5) 11 Perfect (5) 12 Accumulate (5) 14 Business premises (7) 16 Nil (7) 17 More aged (5) 19 Block of metal (5) 20 Girl’s name (5) 21 Turkish monetary unit (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER