TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Celebrities with a certain

shortage of furniture (8) 5 Letter from Greece taken

in by Catherine Jones (4) 8 Grand individual no longer

with us (4)

9 To a local girl, it’s as good

as a mile (4,4)

10 Believed to be a

consideration (7)

12 Large box of vital personal

possessions (5)

13 Specify, if need be for

clarification (6)

15 Low German in outer

Birmingham! (6)

17 The cash for sheer pleasure,

also some goods (5)

18 Sailor with possible dread

of being slightly injured (7) 22 Those crazy things people

sometimes pull (8)

23 A low singer – fishy

looking! (4) 24 Speed past (4)

25 Have another go at being

profitable (3,5)

DOWN

1 Denied the need to have

a gun (7)

2 Dance that adds piquancy

to love? (5)

3 A middling meal? (5)

4 Rock or swing, Southern

style (4)

6 Urgently important to a noted

team man (7)

7 Bring up a girl to be a dear

possession (5)

11 Mr Hackman’s natural

inheritance? (5)

12 In ridiculously rich

surroundings, many singers have nothing (5)

14 Much trumpeting about the

supporter’s diet? (7) 16 Presidential avenue in New

York City (7)

17 Fatheaded deeds that can

hardly be denied (5)

19 Bright eye and thus tailed, is one busy getting out of breath? (5)

20 Doctor and a mother in

crisis (5)

21 What Owen Tudor had left (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Distinguished persons (8) 5 “Catherine --- -Jones”,

actress (4) 8 Vanished (4) 9 Almost a hit (4,4) 10 Idea (7)

12 Thorax (5) 13 Specify (6) 15 Lowest part (6) 17 Finances (5) 18 Grazed (7) 22 Fireworks (8) 23 Sea perch (4) 24 Hurtled (4) 25 Attempt anew (3,5)

DOWN

1 Denied (7)

2 Latin American dance (5) 3 Midday meal (5)

4 Be unsteady (4)

6 Urgent (7)

7 An advantage (5)

11 Units of heredity (5) 12 Body of singers (5) 14 Declamatory brass tune (7) 16 Fourth president of the

U.S. (7)

17 Truths (5)

19 Thick, shaggy (5) 20 Stagecraft (5)

21 Departed, left (4)