TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Got there shakily, all in a

bunch (8)

5 Nourish many, at a price (4)

8 Get fat, perhaps, with

profit (4)

9 Finish something smoothly, like a ball for a cricket side (5,3)

10 Not all sweets consumed by

swells may be caramels (7)

12 Good man taking

precedence (5)

13 Looked quite openly bored (6)

15 New throne with six legs (6)

17 Politicians having a convivial

time? (5)

18 Make something stylish (7)

22 College chum’s vacancy leading to a team change (4-4)

23 Where, as shoppers, many

get everything (4)

24 No love of a chateau (4)

25 It’s said to get you past the chap at the door (8)

DOWN

1 In sozzled style, pretty

closely? (7)

2 Sadly, one may come to it in

the fall (5)

3 Army assembled by

Herod? (5)

4 Defeat right away! (4)

6 It’s wrong for Rosie to get ahead with something damaging (7)

7 Put off Fred’s move out

East (5)

11 Each woman, it seems, is

ruddy heartless! (5)

12 Pokes softly with sticks (5)

14 Calculate how to keep fit by

exercise (4,3)

16 Confused Ted Lang? (7)

17 Sit and fish (5)

19 Declares a verse to be

incomplete? (5)

20 Woman with a little house

somewhere in America (5)

21 If electric, a 50 amp one? (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Combined (8)

5 Give food (4)

8 Profit (4)

9 Finish fittingly (5,3)

10 Sweets (7)

12 Earlier (5)

13 Was open wide (6)

15 Large wasp (6)

17 Jollification (5)

18 Mode (7)

22 Lodging partner (4-4)

23 Shopping area (4)

24 Detest (4)

25 Means of gaining entry (8)

DOWN

1 Closely (7)

2 Sorrow (5)

3 Mob (5)

4 Utter defeat (4)

6 Weathering effect (7)

7 Postpone (5)

11 Each (5)

12 Goads (5)

14 Calculate (4,3)

16 Confused (7)

17 Striped fish (5)

19 Asserts (5)

20 American state (5)

21 A light (4)