TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Emigré beaten up by the

authorities (6)

4 It’s spent on railway

food (6)

7 It’s not cheap, my love (4) 8 Novel is remote and

tedious (8)

9 Took time, but wholly

died out (7)

12 In the main, it won’t be

laughing (3) 14 Approximately three

minutes in the ring (6) 15 A trap may be, in two

ways (6)

16 Sort of nail in one’s

shoe (3)

18 Con man returns in

disgrace (7)

22 Hard part of motorway

to cry on? (8)

23 All black bird? (4) 24 Fat, it is said, of the land (6) 25 A gem in a new setting may

need explaining (6)

DOWN

1 Communist and German worker no longer needed (9) 2 Lofty-sounding organ

dies away (9)

3 Once the article for sale comes up, say how good it is (5)

4 Contract – there could

be money in it! (5)

5 Band giving some Sousa’s

hits (4)

6 Dance and a drink to uplift

a sailor (5)

10 They join the course (5)

11 Took in some hard-up editors (5)

12 Demanding porridge and

fish (9)

13 No, a ring is what would

change her status (9) 17 Different article in gold (5) 19 Beg for keys (5)

20 She may not know many

people well (5)

21 A current safeguard (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Government (6) 4 Pie, tart, e.g. (6)

7 Expensive (4) 8 Boring (8) 9 Dawdled (7) 12 Fuel (3)

14 About (6)

15 Leapt (6)

16 Foot digit (3) 18 Disgrace (7) 22 Bear a burden (8) 23 N. Zealand bird (4) 24 European land (6) 25 Puzzle (6)

DOWN

1 Superfluous (9)

2 Majestic (9)

3 Praise (5)

4 Money bag (5)

5 Waist scarf (4) 6 Latin-American dance (5) 10 Golf course (5) 11 Deluded (5)

12 Exhausting (9) 13 Unmarried Italian lady (9) 17 Alternative (5)

19 Sponge (5)

20 Tend (5)

21 Melt (4)