TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Stolen material, but very

good! (3,5)

5 Stop a chap finishing last (4) 8 Can a Yankee be that

small? (4)

9 Working in the kitchen can

be exciting! (8)

10 Doesn’t remember the wild

forest around Gateshead (7) 12 In being covered with fat, is

weak (5)

13 Find Leo upset about a

spiteful woman (6)

15 Wild orgy at the northern

point of the jetty (6) 17 Requiring oars, is not really

a liner! (5)

18 What disruptive kids do at

end of term? (5,2) 22 Immediate treatment for timber said to be about to start trouble (5,3) 23 Men turn to it for meal

suggestions (4)

24 An artist, quiet but

headstrong! (4) 25 Electrified in a pleasantly

exciting way (8)

DOWN 1 There’s a lot about England’s capital that’s repugnant (7)

2 Wouldn’t he sing for a

fiver? (5)

3 Annoyed by an uppish

clique? (5)

4 Blonde and no cheat (4) 6 Acerbity of a police

inspector in a city (7)

7 Mean when drunk (5) 11 Stop being an outsider (5) 12 Press into service? (5) 14 They lack courage to move

animals out of a road! (7) 16 No longer thump the desk

as you lay down the law (7) 17 Allude to a freer option (5) 19 Something added, as on a

bike (5)

20 Ring a girl, we hear (5) 21 Stretched in a rising

situation (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Mustard! (3,5) 5 Arrest (4)

8 Minuscule (4) 9 Rousing (8)

10 Doesn’t remember (7) 12 Weak (5)

13 Find (6)

15 Breakwater (6) 17 Oarsman (5) 18 Disintegrate (5,2) 22 Initial help (5,3)

23 Bill of fare (4)

24 Hasty (4)

25 Excited (8)

DOWN 1 Detestable (7) 2 Male voice (5) 3 Spill (5) 4 Moderate (4) 6 Sourness (7) 7 Very close (5) 11 Penetrate (5) 12 Compel (5) 14 Dastards (7) 16 Explain (7) 17 Allude (5) 19 Cowboy (5) 20 Toll of a bell (5) 21 Tense (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER