TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Choose to return in flower container (5,3)

5 What’s in the tank that’s not exactly full? (4)

8 Slight as a hint may be (4)

9 Employment for only 24 hours is quite usual (8)

10 Foreign land dependent

on a little railway (7)

12 Winter sportsman up in the air? (5)

13 He gives sermons, etc., in the correct order (6)

15 The mark Jack has to hit (6)

17 He’s entitled to come into the reckoning (5)

18 Such stories have a plot, on occasion (7)

22 Renovated a retail business that’s in the red (8)

23 Endless bilge, maybe, but

plausible (4) 24 Bit of fun with a bird (4)

25 As a singer, a baronet is badly out of line! (8)

DOWN

1 Baseball player in jug? (7)

2 Foreigner in films (5)

3 The might of a nation (5)

4 Revolutionary stage act? (4)

6 Neither fading nor changing colour, from the sound of it (7)

7 Possibly early bird that produces the eggs (5)

11 Referring to a boxing match (5)

12 What a candidate will do who needs a seat (5)

14 Fighting weight of a warship (7)

16 Shaky thing to do three times out of a thousand? (7)

17 The girl in the song (5)

19 The senior of two fielders (5)

20 Little white house up North (5)

21 A rising bard, but not very interesting (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Garden container (5,3) 5

Coal, coke, etc. (4)

8 Flimsy (4)

9 Ordinary (8)

10 Magyar country (7)

12 Winter sportsperson (5)

13 Cleric (6)

15 Objective (6)

17 Nobleman (5)

18 When to retire (7)

22 Renovated (8)

23 Plausible (4)

24 Caper (4)

25 Singing voice (8)

DOWN

1 Water vessel (7)

2 Foreigner (5)

3 Strength (5)

4 Rotate (4)

6 Eternal (7)

7 A coating (5)

11 Concerning (5)

12 Tolerate (5)

14 Warship (7)

16 Quiver (7)

17 Xmas song (5)

19 Senior (5)

20 Snow hut (5)

21 Dull (4)

ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER