TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Screw turns red to green (6) 4 A fair land (6)

7 Africa’s best-known

desert flower (4)

8 A girl outwardly competent

and very charming (8) 9 Before the vote, this

will decide the issue (7) 12 Follow the returning deity (3) 14 Gloss over (6)

15 Having failed to win

is punished (6)

16 Fixed some games

of tennis (3)

18 More transparent pearl

in production (7)

22 Leaving the job, being

very shy (8)

23 Fit a spring (4)

24 Part of house for rent in the

outskirts of Shrewsbury (6) 25 Unrefined and hearty perhaps (6)

DOWN

1 At home with the papers (9) 2 Unwilling cattle run amok (9) 3 Respond – to an encore

call? (5)

4 Ornament, part

ornament (5)

5 Rain is unusual in this

country (4)

6 Underworld love greeting (5) 10 Too high a price to be on

the level (5)

11 Pick up a scrap of information

from a new angle (5) of a head

12 Cleaner appears to put

a fellow off (9)

13 For the most part all consumed by frenetic energy (9)

17 Put up in a Crete resort (5) 19 Ordinary people have a

song about it (5)

20 One loses one’s head

when in a corner (5) 21 Structure ripe for

conversion (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Prison guard (6)

4 On fire (6)

7 Egyptian river (4)

8 Captivating (8) 9 Pitching (7) 12 Canine (3)

14 Gloss paint (6) 15 Defeated (6) 16 Fixed (3)

18 More obvious (7) 22 Shy (8)

23 Water supply (4) 24 Floor of building (6) 25 Sensual (6)

DOWN

1 Grape squeezer (9) 2 Unwilling (9)

3 Respond (5)

4 Decorate (5)

5 M. East country (4)

6 Word of greeting (5)

10 Soak (5)

11 Cull (5)

12 Cleansing agent (9)

13 As a rule (9)

17 Upright (5)

19 Non-clerical churchgoers (5) 20 Fire burning in hearth (5) 21 Jetty (4)