TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Coin made badly by a joker (8)

5 Something worthy of a consuming interest (4)

8 Nominally the bread list? (4)

9 Skill needed if a boy is to do his best (8)

10 Angry when done any wrong (7)

12 Animal companion for a little devil (5)

13 Mother’s kind (6)

15 As a woman, she’s in big trouble (6)

17 Plenty to be borne (5)

18 Can it turn up and scoot around under water? (7)

22 Hamlet character who returns for some more gallivanting (8)

23 Inoffensive figures (4)

24 The kind found in hovels or tenements (4)

25 The German one may work doggedly with the police (8)

DOWN

1 Sure to be particular (7)

2 Man touring the Italian city (5)

3 I’m on time for the picture (5)

4 Crackers! (4)

6 Bird with a circuitous way to get wealthy? (7)

7 When you use a tea towel, stop talking (3,2)

11 Not only square ones have area (5)

12 Get to the seaside from Ascot (5)

14 Does it come after the film it advertises? (7)

16 Lived in the desired style (7)

17 Survives terrible evils (5)

19 What a caver may arrange

to do before eating? (5)

20 The loftiness of Lee’s lot (5)

21 Manages without a fellow for years (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Funny man (8)

5 Nourishment (4)

8 Trundle (4)

9 Fine skill (8)

10 Displeased (7)

12 An ape, informally (5)

13 Character (6)

15 Sealing ring (6)

17 Burdens (5)

18 Tentacled creature (7)

22 A rustic (8)

23 Harmless (4)

24 Type, kind (4)

25 Sheep carer (8)

DOWN

1 Positive (7)

2 Italian city (5)

3 Likeness (5)

4 Kernels in shells (4)

6 Flightless bird (7)

7 Stop talking! (3,2)

11 Three-foot lengths (5)

12 Shore (5)

14 Towed vehicle (7)

16 Lived (7)

17 Biographies (5)

19 Slice, as meat (5)

20 Hauteur (5)

21 Epochs (4)