TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 He is or could be a

shopkeeper (6)

4 Great girl, marrying

unlawfully (6)

7 School is in a mess (4) 8 Vehicle in the distance

is not hostile (8) 9 Mother’s pet dog? (7) 12 Provide weapons for a

member (3)

14 Alluring abstraction? (6) 15 It will have an enormous

bill to face (6)

16 Salt, possibly used as

a preservative (3) 18 Rejecting uncooked

food results in hostility (7) 22 A cleric I found in the

abbey (8)

23 Call for a piece of

jewellery (4) 24 Wooden-faced beauty (6) 25 People do their best on

theirs (6)

DOWN

1 Use surgical instrument

to eat mash! (9)

2 He has found a job at

last (9)

3 Respond to a trace of

difference (5)

4 Short and direct (5)

5 Farm butter (4)

6 Athlete suffers reverse

in the preliminaries (5) 10 Strength is rising afresh (5) 11 Growing girl? (5)

12 The claims set out by one

seeking gold (9)

13 The story one tells (9) 17 Quick breathing (5)

19 Agent loses fine

performer (5)

20 Lifting of spirit in debate (5) 21 Bad habit in the woodwork

class? (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Dealer in stockings (6) 4 Illegally marrying twice (6) 7 Berkshire town (4) 8 Friendly (8)

9 Large dog (7)

12 Provide weapons (3) 14 Capturing (6) 15 Tropical bird (6) 16 Sailor (3)

18 Hostilities (7) 22 Clergyman (8) 23 Circle (4)

24 Thin wood coating (6) 25 Temperament (6)

DOWN

1 Surgical clamp (9)

2 Cobbler (9)

3 Respond (5)

4 Short (5)

5 Animal (4) 6 Middle-distance runner (5) 10 Tendon (5)

11 Plants (5)

12 One trying to change metal

to gold (9)

13 Speech by one person (9) 17 Existing (5)

19 Player (5)

20 Tribunal (5)

21 Failing (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER