TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 One club to beat (6)

4 Kind of maggot (6)

7 A singer the French turn

to (4)

8 Main contender (8)

9 Driving a point home? (7) 12 Modern piece of poetry (3) 14 Does it secure tile to

shingle? (6)

15 Go back and make a

further concession? (6)

16 He means to make hay

while the sun shines (3) 18 One should be, in entering

a new trade (7)

22 Call for a rise (8)

23 Wise men having a different

image out East (4)

24 U.S. port in a state of

inactivity (6)

25 Attend and possibly enlist (6)

DOWN

1 Two attempts made by

the marksman (9)

2 Set off for a famous school with an old-fashioned exterior (9)

3 Support a trainee, as is

quite proper (5)

4 Profit includes a thousand

for the urchin (5)

5 Draw blood in prison (4) 6 Spiked running shoes

may be (5)

10 What I’m called when I

do it all wrong (5)

11 New – to ocean travel? (5) 12 With which one suffers a

lack of balance (9) 13 Architectural side-show? (9) 17 The English opening used

in a tournament (5) 19 Drawing instrument found

amongst dividers? (5) 20 Thought the trainee

perfect (5)

21 Cunning, in the main (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Bludgeon (6)

4 Mild (6)

7 Male singer (4) 8 Fighting bird (8) 9 Spiking (7)

12 Poem (3)

14 Woman’s headwear

fastener (6)

15 Ebb (6)

16 Edward (3)

18 Practised (7) 22 Wakening signal (8) 23 The Three Wise Men (4) 24 Coma (6)

25 Harken (6)

DOWN 1 Expert marksman (9) 2 Exploded (9)

3 Lawful (5)

4 Urchin (5)

5 Notch (4)

6 Threaded (5) 10 Imbecile (5) 11 Verdant (5)

12 Deficit at bank (9) 13 Height (9) 17 Happening (5) 19 Monarch (5) 20 Perfect (5) 21 Profound (4)