TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Ready to throw a line to one

in trouble (6)

4 Study each function (6) 7 About finished (4)

8 Plump for pudding (4-4)

9 Let everybody marry with

love at heart (7)

12 Theatrical agent (3)

14 Novel Parisian model hat (6) 15 Make a spring comeback (6)

16 About to swallow duck

eggs (3)

18 Further progress (7)

22 A spot of sympathy? (8) 23 Backing Italian agreement, the French are giving ground (4)

24 Mean as an infuriated

wasp (6) 25 Allow the devil in and he’s not easily shifted (6)

DOWN 1 Outstanding piece of

cinematic apparatus? (9) 2 Worker at work (9)

3 Trunk and roots affected (5) 4 Vegetable taken by

sisters (5)

5 Ready to drop (4)

6 Loves anagram to

decipher (5)

10 Scales needing some

calibration (5)

11 Kill a doctor and confess (5) 12 In racing they follow the

winners (7-2)

13 Head of state needs trip

abroad (9)

17 Public minister raised

in Old Testament (5)

19 I’d try tidying up if in this

condition (5)

20 Dismay seen when a soft

drink is upset (5)

21 New barn for grain husks (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Immediate (6)

4 Read carefully (6) 7 Finished (4)

8 Plump (4-4)

9 Permitted (7)

12 Theatre company, in short (3) 14 Hat (6)

15 Rebound (6)

16 Fish eggs (3)

18 Put forward (7)

22 Lachrymal globule (8)

23 Eyot (4)

24 Miserly (6)

25 Clinging mollusc (6)

DOWN

1 Optical instrument (9) 2 Factory worker (9)

3 Trunk (5)

4 Lentil (5)

5 Mature (4)

6 Unravel problem (5) 10 Zodiac sign (5) 11 Submerge (5)

12 Silver medal winners (7-2) 13 Chief of state (9)

17 Plain (5)

19 Foul (5)

20 Dismay (5)

21 Grain husks (4)