TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Made up a crossword with

letters heaped together (8) 5 Like a helpful wind when

the weather’s decent (4) 8 Boys possibly sad after

being left (4)

9 It can go to your head in

more senses than one (8) 10 You can’t walk away from

them (7)

12 How to get away from

being washed? (5)

13 Talked effusively while

giving a chap wild hugs (6) 15 Kind of oil Elsie’d spilt (6) 17 It may be in a boat (or on

the fat cats’ train) (5) 18 Dean’s part of the book? (7) 22 One who understands the

leader? (8)

23 Even a slight contact can

break skis (4)

24 Joined in four ways (4) 25 It’s illuminating, if perhaps not the most brilliant (8)

DOWN

1 Crying out for something

vocational (7)

2 A perfect copy? (5)

3 Ruled in a manner showing

marked effects (5) 4 Possibly hot food for

pets? (4)

6 Sporting family long on

radio (7)

7 In a sense, get ready to

eat (5)

11 One way to mix dye is

rather poor (5)

12 Is this sea like tea? (5)

14 Some shoals, you’ll agree,

are far from deep (7)

16 It’s at the cricket ground that one behaves in high style (5,2)

17 Offerings from an American

soldier, or from forts (5) 19 His novels give perennial

pleasure (5)

20 One that goes crash in the

night? (5)

21 Being a creditor, married

for love (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Amassed (8) 5 Honest (4)

8 Youths (4)

9 Bedtime drink (8) 10 Insular areas (7) 12 Dirt-free (5) 13 Flowed freely (6) 15 Fuel oil (6) 17 Savoury fluid (5) 18 Book section (7) 22 Supporter (8) 23 Loving gesture (4) 24 Stitched (4)

25 Sun’s illumination (8)

DOWN

1 Visiting (7)

2 Exemplary (5) 3 Furrowed, wrinkled (5) 4 Canine animals (4) 6 Bowmen (7)

7 Become mature (5) 11 Hard up (5)

12 Porcelain (5) 14 Superficial (7)

16 Acts the aristocrat (5,2) 17 Presents (5)

19 Tough, rugged (5) 20 Any object (5)

21 Was in debt (4)