TWO-WAY TEASER

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

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Many move up, being

bright (6)

4 Buffalo Bill going round the Middle East for light entertainment (6)

7 Pole among a number

going back home (4) 8 Charm is a curious

personal quality (8) 9 Gallery finds finale a

welcome surprise (7) 12 Part of the Circle Line (3) 14 Torpid characters making

a stand (6)

15 Metal detector? (6) 16 Music paper (3)

18 He has a taste for a bit

of embroidery (7) 22 Arrange one’s time for

the interval at the bar (8) 23 Call for view to be

expressed (4)

24 It’s used to lift – or bring

down (6) 25 Remarkable way to

communicate (6)

DOWN

1 Busman marking time? (9) 2 Calm and painless death (9) 3 They may be used for

storing stretchers (5) 4 Measure of restriction (5) 5 Graduate elected as

principal (4)

6 Object to being not quite

sober (5)

10 The wastage is very large

among doctors (5) 11 Amusing nobleman rising

fifty (5)

12 Have to share out a pint?

– poor arrangement! (9) 13 Revolution in the gym,

perhaps (9)

17 It’s organised near a scene

of conflict (5)

19 By itself something which

attracts interest, we hear (5) 20 Iron clasp (5)

21 Where things are washed up

or settle on the seabed (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Talented (6)

4 Amusing play (6)

7 Bird’s home (4) 8 Magnetic appeal of someone (8)

9 Welcome piece of good

fortune (7)

12 Part of circumference of

circle (3)

14 Stand with three legs (6) 15 Policeman (6)

16 Bit of waste cloth (3) 18 Taster (7)

22 Smallest interval in

music (8)

23 Quote (4)

24 Equipment (6) 25 Communication (6)

DOWN 1 Orchestra leader (9) 2 Laid-back (9) 3 Instruments of torture (5) 4 22 yards (5)

5 Chief (4)

6 To object (5)

10 Impurities (5)

11 Comical (5)

12 Distribute (9)

13 Sideways handspring (9) 17 Stadium (5)

19 Solitary (5)

20 Iron (5)

21 Decline (4)