TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Disliked being drunkenly steered around the Nag’s Head (8)

5 Proverbially good standard (4)

8 The end of an animal (4)

9 Splits with the stars! (8)

10 Do something illuminating to make things less burdensome (7)

12 Well contradicted! (5)

13 Bustle around without being obvious (6)

15 Possibly one-armed villain (6)

17 Electronic components possibly knocked off? (5)

18 An old one certainly knows the drill (7)

22 Beaten up and cooked, in a certain case (8)

23 Formerly of some concern (4)

24 See the aged as unfriendly (4)

25 Her master has an untidy garret (8)

DOWN

1 Shakes so as to startle, maybe? (7)

2 Move to and fro to music? (5)

3 A trying thing to do in the boat astern (5)

4 Unable to appreciate what is sound (4)

6 It’s nothing for Verdi to have a sad ending that’s exaggerated (7)

7 Such an answer is obviously not polished (5)

11 Are they told in hospital, especially? (5)

12 It’s right to shout out in a fight (5)

14 City where it’s the fashion to be shipshape (7)

16 Men trot around contorted in pain (7)

17 Of the square shape suggested by Rubik (5)

19 We get it all the time (5)

20 The man who came to dinner! (5)

21 Leaving, possibly for Maidenhead (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Objected to (8)

5 Precious metal (4)

8 Follow (4)

9 Smashes (8)

10 Alleviate (7)

12 Poorly (5)

13 Faint, delicate (6)

15 Robber (6)

17 French fries (5)

18 Warrior (7)

22 Pounded (8)

23 Formerly (4)

24 Icy (4)

25 Baroness --- Thatcher (8)

DOWN

1 Shakes (7)

2 Pendulum movement (5)

3 Flavour (5)

4 Unable to hear (4)

6 Exaggerated (7)

7 Powdery (5)

11 Stories (5)

12 Fight (5)

14 English city (7)

16 Agony (7)

17 Shaped like dice (5)

19 More ancient (5)

20 Central (5)

21 Opposite of “to” (4)