TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Softer alternative from large wooded area (6) 4 Leave a wilderness (6) 7 Dependable person’s style of music (4) 8 Tell man to be casual (8) 9 One in a French class with distinctive garb (7) 12 Snake seen among sea spiders (3) 14 Tarts I cooked for painter (6) 15 Bert is out with clans (6) 16 Close remnant (3) 18 Component needed by the French fellows in film (7) 22 Invented story about royal creating animosity (8) 23 Lasting wish (4) 24 Tape best performance (6) 25 Rubber used for ages by the queen (6)

DOWN

1 At ten, four unusually lucky (9) 2 Cute rider somehow enlisted (9) 3 Incredibly fit, he’s a shoplifter (5) 4 Engineers fed up and put off (5) 5 Father is up and about (4) 6 A lot of writing about a manuscript (5) 10 One woman accepting second edition (5) 11 Blend consumed by slimmer gentlemen (5) 12 A doctor with debts grabs it, being enterprising (9) 13 Traveller in vehicle who does no effective work? (9) 17 Bottle never breaking (5) 19 One taken in by fat landowner (5) 20 100 in pit wanting meat (5) 21 Part of the chosen repeat (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Large wooded area (6) 4 Wilderness (6) 7 Boulder (4) 8 Casual (8) 9 Distinctive garb (7) 12 Snake (3) 14 Painter (6) 15 Clans (6) 16 Finish (3) 18 Component (7) 22 Discord (8) 23 Lengthy (4) 24 Disc (6) 25 Rubber (6)

DOWN

1 Lucky (9) 2 Enlisted (9) 3 Pilferer (5) 4 Postpone (5) 5 Father (4) 6 Large quantity of paper (5) 10 Edition (5) 11 Combine (5) 12 Go-ahead (9) 13 Traveller in vehicle (9) 17 Courage (5) 19 Scottish landowner (5) 20 Ground meat (5) 21 Resound (4)