TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Disturbed the pair of wild deer (8)

5 The side with punch? (4)

8 Is it eaten for fun? (4)

9 Photo finishes? (8)

10 Comes down to a slight alteration (7)

12 Out of sorts, though seemingly pretty full of beans? (5)

13 Sweet guys upset about hard heartedness (6)

15 A stout carrier (6)

17 Tangled weeds useful as a vegetable (5)

18 One full of grit in helping with the defence (7)

22 How one might regret crying in one’s beer? (8)

23 As a team, perhaps, they may get one out of ten (4)

24 Damaged like a rent book (4)

25 Best kind of control to have over a mistress? (8)

DOWN

1 Can they get free food in bars? (7)

2 Musical times (5)

3 A blow for rectitude (5)

4 Do a bit of work on a revolver, possibly (4)

6 Event I had to enter, that’s clear (7)

7 Tryingly peevish? (5)

11 If refusing to jump, would one sound hoarse? (5)

12 Taught how to keep poles apart (5)

14 More like London, perhaps or Manchester? (7)

16 The time when a deputy had his own rule (7)

17 Footwear in the form of boats? (5)

19 By getting a fathead out of a terrible hole! (5)

20 Possibly champion dog (5)

21 Forbidding to be cruel? (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Troubled (8)

5 Departed (4)

8 Sport (4)

9 High-quality magazines (8)

10 Comes to rest (7)

12 Shabby (5) 13 Sweet (6)

15 Carrier (6)

17 Root vegetable (5)

18 A form of cosh (7)

22 Acrimoniously (8)

23 Bovine animals (4)

24 Ripped (4)

25 Very skilful (8)

DOWN

1 Mendicants (7)

2 Speeds of playing music (5)

3 Correct (5)

4 Entrance (4)

6 Obvious (7)

7 Irascible (5)

11 Equestrian’s mount (5)

12 Revealed (5)

14 Bigger (7)

16 Period of rule by deputy (7)

17 Wooden shoe (5)

19 Great void (5)

20 Fighter (5)

21 Stern (4)