TWO-WAY TEASER

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

ACROSS

1 Staggers and falls at the bus terminus (8)

5 Stirring soup can be rhythmic work (4)

8 Where a crazy liar lives? (4)

9 In furnishing, a drawback for an irrational bore (8)

10 Detective yarn my story resembles (7)

12 Not the best man to look after a horse? (5)

13 The part of “Nanki Poo”, possibly, can be materially protective (6)

15 Beauty but skin deep (6)

17 As an airman, he’s a very good gas lighter (5)

18 It’s the least I can do, little mother (7)

22 Drink with a portion of chicken (8)

23 Wickedness can be exceptionally vile! (4)

24 Just what the doctor ordered (4)

25 Asked a man a lot, indeed! (8)

DOWN

1 Royal performance on Monday (7)

2 The ones to point a new suit out (5)

3 Scowl, being lacking in height (5)

4 The kind that rots badly (4)

6 Suggest taking a professional attitude (7)

7 Naughty teams never far from hot water (5)

11 Be no longer able to sit around? (5)

12 New, maybe, but there’s a hole in it! (5)

14 Posh places dad does up (7)

16 Having strayed, a sheep suffered (7)

17 Raised one’s cap to the Editor at a calculated speed! (5)

19 The world in which mails are religiously sorted? (5)

20 Emotionally affected by many a wild dove (5)

21 Come down in the country (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Lurches (8)

5 Composition (4)

8 Den (4)

9 Clothes cupboard (8)

10 Enigma (7)

12 Stableman (5)

13 Serviette (6)

15 Wooden facing (6)

17 Flier (5)

18 Smallest amount (7)

22 Mixed drink (8)

23 Sinful (4)

24 Prescribed amount (4)

25 Exacted (8)

DOWN

1 Biblical king (7)

2 Ones (5)

3 Inferior (5)

4 Type (4)

6 Suggest (7)

7 Water vapour (5)

11 Be (5)

12 Verdant (5)

14 Royal edifices (7)

16 Wandered (7)

17 Strode (5)

19 Muslim religion (5)

20 Shifted (5)

21 Territory (4) ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S PAPER