TWO-WAY TEASER
TWO sets of clues but the answers are the same... CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Battered fish she
accepted (6)
4 It needs considerable resources to change the law (6)
7 Small banks of sand in
the river (4)
8 Branch is not on fire (3-5) 9 Mother left fat on the duck (7) 12 Stitch in three ways (3) 14 Scholar makes notes in
exercise book (6)
15 Stay in a formation of
IRA men (6)
16 It’s played on the carpet (3) 18 Backward boys able to
go in for gossip (7)
22 Begin an unusual run
as top of the bill (4,4)
23 New pear crop (4)
24 Menace from the rat (6) 25 Demon drink? (6)
DOWN
1 Pound for a neat writer (6,3) 2 Unusual pet made us
excited (7,2)
3 Note the record is
amusing (5)
4 A thin layer above and
below the ice (5)
5 A pain in the stomach
eased by treatment (4)
6 He’s to be changed, not
these (5)
10 Joins a course for drivers (5) 11 Anxiety shown by red-head
coming in late (5)
12 Perhaps a pony is a matter
of no consequence (5,4)
13 Deteriorated and became
a drug-taker (4,2,3) 17 Mahler’s third in the full
version (5)
19 Where people involved with rackets may be seen, in more than one way (5) 20 One may be dressed
up to them – by numbers? (5) 21 Charge is about right
on the house (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Bludgeoned (6) 4 Opulence (6) 7 Northern river (4) 8 Outgrowth (3-5)
9 Duck (7)
12 Stitch (3)
14 Stickler for rules (6) 15 Abide (6)
16 Forty winks (3) 18 Outrage (7) 22 Top-line act (4,4) 23 Harvest (4) 24 Menace (6) 25 Apparition (6)
DOWN
1 Animal enclosure (6,3) 2 Misted over (7,2) 3 Comical (5)
4 Biscuit (5)
5 Pain (4)
6 The items indicated (5) 10 Golf course (5)
11 Fear (5)
12 Trifling matters (5,4) 13 Fell into decline (4,2,3) 17 Letter “H” (5)
19 Woo (5)
20 One may be dressed
to them (5)
21 Gratis (4)