TWO WAY TEASER

TWO sets of clues but the answer are the same

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Absurdly proud, being about to own cats and dogs (8) 5 One taking a turn at

cooking? (4) 8 Hurt and angry (4) 9 Discovered to have left? (5,3) 10 Put back in stock again (7) 12 Thus employ an old

drunkard (5) 13 Being cowardly, utter a cry

of pain (6) 15 A loving touch from

Mercedes? (6) 17 Said to be part of a wheel

(5) 18 Reprove a slipshod nurse

for going at half pace (7) 22 Does it help make the gravy

sheer poetry? (8) 23 Prepare to publish a new

diet (4) 24 Bye and thanks again (2-2) 25 Illegal dispatch man (8)

DOWN 1 Do away with a familiar

name for an ancient city (7) 2 Is employed in a factory (5) 3 Show willingness to be

tender? (5) 4 Trouncing on a bad tour (4) 6 Turn out deceptively to be

pure cod! (7) 7 There’s a big fight for it (5) 11 Gas is a weighty one? (5) 12 Mark and Stanley getting

out of line (5) 14 Outlook is mixed for spy (7) 16 We stare, perhaps, at such a

girl (7) 17 Warped wooden shoe could

be seen as a boast (5) 19 Regal composer! (5) 20 Subordinate to a bit of a

bounder! (5) 21 A projected production (4) QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Heavy rain (8) 5 Device for roasting (4) 8 Painful (4) 9 Detected (5,3) 10 Renovate (7) 12 Pickle (5) 13 Primrose colour (6) 15 Fondle (6) 17 Uttered (5) 18 Reprimand (7) 22 Robert, poet (8) 23 Prepare for press (4) 24 Farewell (2-2) 25 Assassin (8)

DOWN 1 Demolish (7) 2 Labours (5) 3 Bid (5) 4 Utter defeat (4) 6 Make, or yield (7) 7 Name (5) 11 Gas (5) 12 Discolour (5) 14 Watcher (7) 16 Woolly garment (7) 17 Wooden shoe (5) 19 Sir Edward, composer (5) 20 Beneath (5) 21 Movie (4)