TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Child brings back ten lines

of verse (6)

4 A coloured print for the

home (6)

7 Failing to become a

deputy (4)

8 Sick, exhausted and badly

used (3-5)

9 Be enough to satisfy (7) 12 South Pennsylvania

resort (3)

14 Argue about an issue (6) 15 One way to loaf is to walk

leisurely (6)

16 Worry – there’s no alternative when things are crooked (3)

18 Leaps out of bed,

perhaps (7)

22 Co-operate and don’t

miss the delivery (4,4) 23 Sort of fruit remains on the

ground in New Zealand (4) 24 Check for security guard (6) 25 Setback in retirement (6)

DOWN

1 You’ll be well suited here

in London (6,3)

2 Any recess regarded as

unavoidable (9)

3 He’s taken to be a

criminal (5)

4 Pass Olympic finalists with

tummy-ache (5)

5 Naughty children I am first

to punish successfully (4) 6 These kids will reach a

hundred (3-2)

10 Sweets for kids (5)

11 Great envy gnawed away at

the heart (5)

12 A tree Northerners long

for (5,4)

13 Agree ills may arise from

such rash reactions (9) 17 Widow endlessly displays

keepsake (5)

19 Open grassland (5)

20 One comparatively unused

to work (5)

21 Do secretarial work of a

sort (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 14-line poem (6) 4 Floral cotton cloth (6) 7 Sin (4)

8 Squandered (3-5)

9 Be enough (7) 12 Spring (3)

14 Motive (6)

15 Saunter (6) 16 Crooked (3)

18 Wells (7)

22 Be co-operative (4,4) 23 New Zealand bird (4) 24 Partition (6)

25 Alcove (6)

DOWN

1 London street of top

tailors (6,3)

2 Needful (9)

3 Robber (5)

4 Stomach ache (5)

5 Little devils (4)

6 Having achieved a score or

speed of 100 (3-2) 10 Simpletons (5)

11 Consumed (5)

12 Evergreen tree (5,4) 13 Hypersensitive reactions (9) 17 Souvenir (5)

19 Simple (5)

20 Drone (5)

21 Sort (4)