TWO-WAY TEASER

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Lean spinner is first-class (3-3)

4 Where people make pots on a wheel? (6)

7 It is dry in the Kalahari Desert (4)

8 Regarded as having taken no active part (6,2)

9 Upset at dense and poor part of London (4,3)

12 Its price increases after it has been cut (3)

14 A Spaniard is taken for a Greek (6)

15 Bed not turned – but the sheets may be (6)

16 Pixie full of Cockney well-being, we hear (3)

18 Be in the lead in a snooker game – a trumped up affair (5-2)

22 Accomplished players, but not very bright (8)

23 Capital and endless loose change (4)

24 Aircraft at the end of a flight in the sky (6)

25 Feast I set out for a religious festival (6)

DOWN

1 Make clear what is foreign to us? (9)

2 Put two and two together (6,3)

3 One in conspiracy to control the ship (5)

4 It goes to the head of state (5)

5 Look for the bishop’s office over the week-end (4)

6 Loop-line soon turns East (5)

10 Being unyielding, a point leads to a quarrel (5)

11 A buzzer that doesn’t work (5)

12 Way-out supporters (9)

13 Maine’s not to be confused with this state (9)

17 It is even palindromic (5)

19 Cook needs the right oven (5)

20 It’s an idea to turn up healthy to the doctor (5)

21 Flier, no longer in the navy (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 First-class (3-3)

4 Gaming-house (6)

7 Parched (4)

8 Regarded (6,2)

9 Cockney part of London (4,3)

Jewel (3) 14 Handsome man (6)

15 Textile fabric (6)

16 Sprite (3)

18 False charge (5-2)

22 Cloudy (8)

23 Norwegian capital (4)

24 Mars, for example (6)

25 Festival (6)

DOWN

1 Interpret (9)

2 Arranged in twos (6,3)

3 Flier of plane (5)

4 Royal symbol (5)

5 Look for (4)

6 Lasso (5)

10 Unbending (5)

11 Idler (5)

12 Supporters of garden entrance (9)

13 US state (9)

17 Horizontal (5)

19 Sunday joint (5)

20 Theme (5)

21 Little bird (4)