TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Fascinating thing to do at the gate (8)

5 Where the shopping means

a lot to everybody? (4)

8 Has lunch, perhaps, in a sweatshop (4)

9 Indicate that the fielder is no longer batting (5,3)

10 Girls who possibly keep the mob in toys (7)

12 Consider him to hold a high position at court (5)

13 one isn’t sure to have them (6)

15 It’s not so easy to hare madly around the central road (6)

17 It’s right, during a meal, to be allowed to go (5)

18 Yellow rats floundering in mud (7)

22 Goblins dispersed by Merlin in the outer Gorbals (8)

23 A unique performance of “one Alone”? (4) 24 Is it a 50-50 chance for the matador? (4)

25 Well looked after, there in the Ministry of Defence (8)

DOWN

1 Put up with being made to stand (7)

2 A child takes them to be a thing of special significance (5)

3 Quick to get cold? (5)

4 It’s characteristic of terrible villains (4)

6 Steered clear of a useless little fellow (7)

7 Possibly relit with a quantity of petrol (5)

11 Chose to make a new poet

do without nothing (5)

12 nominally one person’s garments (5)

14 Vain order to work with fewer materials (7)

16 Californian giant in the Conservative party (7)

17 To make a gift out of a fishtail is quite a struggle (5)

19 Emotionally disturbed, determined to get high! (5)

20 Romance, it seems, may be nothing but a rum affair! (5)

21 But such a star could take a flimsy part (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Portal (8)

5 Shopping precinct (4)

8 Consumes (4)

9 Indicate (5,3)

10 Hoydens (7)

12 Estimate (5)

13 Suspicions (6)

15 Tougher (6)

17 Released (5)

18 Condiment (7)

22 Troublesome imps (8) 23 Alone (4)

24 Fling (4)

25 Babied (8)

DOWN

1 Built (7)

2 Tribal emblem (5) 3 Sharp (5)

4 Wicked (4)

6 Dodged (7)

7 Unit of volume (5) 11 Chose (5)

12 Informal garments (5) 14 In vain (7)

16 Big tree (7)

17 Conflict (5)

19 Spilt (5)

20 Love affair (5) 21 Motion picture (4) ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S