Double Crossword
Cryptic puzzle
Across
1. Celebrity directors? That's right (9)
8. In favour of not being an amateur (3)
9. Empty-headed look (6,5)
11. There's nothing in the instrument but a crown (7)
12. English composer possibly lost by the hospital (5)
13. I enter the rearranged salon to find the girl (6)
15. Snooker shot from one of the big guns? (6)
17. Gather it's a church service (5)
18. Not steady like a furniture item (7)
20. What people who find DIY jobs above them need? (4,7)
22. Biblical character from Belize (3)
23. A half of lager is unimportant (5,4)
Down
2. Possibly ate a meal (3)
3. Man in an African country (5)
4. Valuable things Tessa's sorted out (6)
5. Greek capital? (7)
6. It's not a very difficult contest (8,3)
7. The lady of the lake? (9)
10. Churchmen in moral transgression (8,3)
11. Person finding the tea-crate broken (9)
14. Seafood available from various storeys (7)
16. Had returned and left one a plant (6)
19. Type of wave to a boy getting it back (5)
21. Regret it's a way of the French (3)
Quick puzzle
Across
1. Faint-heartedness (9)
8. Epoch (3)
9. Shameful (11)
11. Extra (7)
12. Runner (5)
13. Monarch (6)
15. Feminine (6)
17. Governor (5)
18. Engrave (7)
20. Nous (6,5)
22. Prosecute (3)
23. Anxious (9)
Down
2. Japanese sash (3)
3. Rustic (5)
4. Cut (6)
5. Oblige (7)
6. Delight (11)
7. Wrong (9)
10. Puritanical (6-5)
11. Oversee (9)
14. In pottery (7)
16. Renounce (6)
19. Outmoded (5)
21. Observe (3)
Monday's solutions
CRYPTIC
Across: 7 Leonid; 8 Gemini; 10 Retinue; 11 Party; 12 Teak; 13 Flute; 17 Barge; 18 Here; 22 Claim; 23 Notices; 24 Rumpus; 25 Turner.
Down: 1 Clarets; 2 Portray; 3 Fiend; 4 Respite; 5 Libra; 6 Vinyl; 9 Negligent; 14 Harmful; 15 Fencing; 16 Dessert; 19 Scorn; 20 Palma; 21 Stout.
QUICK
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Hide AdAcross: 7 Parity; 8 Fickle; 10 Contain; 11 Talon; 12 Loll; 13 Genus; 17 Manly; 18 Hole; 22 Rebus; 23 Disgust; 24 Breeze; 25 Bazaar.
Down: 1 Speckle; 2 Wrangle; 3 Stray; 4 Wistful; 5 Skulk; 6 Being; 9 Interlude; 14 Capsize; 15 Jocular; 16 Venture; 19 Bribe; 20 Ebbed; 21 Oscar.