TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Satisfies oneself and the constituents (8)

5 A lot of money for a plant (4)

8 Speed of charge (4)

9 In the forefront, one keeping watch on a vehicle (8)

10 Set up in a small marketing business (7)

12 Salty as the sea (5)

13 Highly skilled, though no longer cocky (6)

15 Be sociable somewhere

warm with the toff (6)

17 Being disdainful, possibly drop out around midJanuary (5)

18 Crime that was the undoing of a senator? (7)

22 China, apparently to blame for disabling injury? (8)

23 Mum’s hot food (4)

24 Apparently the ship had cast off (4)

25 What George Washington couldn’t do to his father (4,1,3)

DOWN

1 Colour alternatively available in cream (7)

2 Not the rest centre, one observes (5)

3 Tale of illicit love at the Nag’s Head (5)

4 Boys in the prison service (4)

6 Foreign gentleman in an air crash? (7)

7 Now there’s a piece of wood in the river (5)

11 Ventilated one’s views (5)

12 “Penniless!” one snapped (5)

14 Sponsor in a way that seems professional to me, somehow (7)

16 Has been reformed as a mournful wailer (7)

17 Those apt to break the ice? (5)

19 Blue-blooded couple of males (5)

20 A bit of a dismal life, being unimportant (5)

21 A punch that can be felt, obviously (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Ingredients (8)

5 Aromatic plant (4)

8 Evaluate (4)

9 Forefront (8)

10 Ensconce (7)

12 The sea, informally (5)

13 Specialist (6)

15 Socialise (6)

17 Conceited (5)

18 Treachery (7)

22 Bowls, plates, etc. (8)

23 Pulp (4)

24 Garden shelter (4)

25 Utter an untruth (4,1,3)

DOWN

1 Vivid red (7)

2 Jottings (5)

3 A book (5)

4 Lads (4)

6 Modern Persian (7)

7 At present (5)

11 Dried out (5)

12 Fractured (5)

14 Upgrade (7)

16 Wailing spirit (7)

17 Chooses (5)

19 Kingly (5)

20 Little (5)

21 Departed (4)