Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Jul 2011, 10:26 BST
Updated 12th Jul 2011, 10:30 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Dally on the way to theatre visit? (4-5)

8. Cereal harvested from very early times (3)

9. Bless one rip liable to be called to account (11)

11. Enforced when I am ready to be photographed (7)

12. Permission not to interfere (5)

13. Having got hair back, father becomes social outcast! (6)

15. Get away from two points on the headland (6)

17. General drift of singer (5)

18. I.e. tunes forming a single unit (2,5)

20. Caution misplaced in unusual deal to do with schooling (11)

22. Is able to be carried when 9 (3)

23. Showing how dunderhead gets selected for team (9)

Down

2. Falsehood is not to be stood for (3)

3. 144 without deductions (5)

4. Selected for the team, but not on the wing (6)

5. Swallows like turkeys (7)

6. Getting ready for an opera trip, perhaps (11)

7. Keep on trying always among awkward peers (9)

10. Manage to finish after reins put in a tangle (11)

11. Compete in powerlessness (9)

14. A reason for being stranded? (7)

16. Staple parts of flower (6)

19. Nevertheless not moving (5)

21. Copy half 15 (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Homicidal (9)

8. Born (3)

9. Undistinguished (11)

11. Expel (7)

12. Curl (5)

13. Attractive (6)

15. Split (6)

17. Infant (5)

18. Designate (7)

20. Kindness (11)

22. Nothing (3)

23. Yield (9)

Down

2. Employ (3)

3. Level (5)

4. Unlocked (6)

5. Template (7)

6. Sudden idea (11)

7. Receiver (9)

10. Considerable (11)

11. Agog (9)

14. News (7)

16. Tray (6)

19. Throb (5)

21. Actor's signal (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

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Across: 7 Hoarse; 8 Resume; 10 Compile; 11 Inter; 12 Edam; 13 Acted; 17 Means; 18 Vera; 22 Coati; 23 Refrain; 24 Abroad; 25 Recent.

Down: 1 Chicken; 2 Oatmeal; 3 Aspic; 4 Derives; 5 Quits; 6 Terry; 9 Mercenary; 14 Seminar; 15 Related; 16 Magneto; 19 Scrap; 20 Laura; 21 Offer.

QUICK

Across: 7 Rooted; 8 Fidget; 10 Explore; 11 Lunge; 12 Leer; 13 Pupil; 17 Trade; 18 Firm; 22 Clamp; 23 Tadpole; 24 Misfit; 25 Ardent.

Down: 1 Briefly; 2 Complex; 3 Below; 4 Villain; 5 Agony; 6 Strew; 9 Fecundate; 14 Graphic; 15 Litotes; 16 Amnesty; 19 Scamp; 20 Marsh; 21 Adore.