Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Moderately good charity sale (4)

8. Every bit of fury that is currently fashionable (3,3,4)

9. German it turns out is one leaving his country (8)

10. Throw nothing away from the edge of the sea (4)

12. In this car certain things are difficult to find (6)

14. Steal platoon leader's broken rifle (6)

15. Girl got back after six in capital (6)

17. Where apt one has been recorded? (2,4)

18. Give a searching look to one's equal? (4)

19. Broadcasting one in another programme (2,3,3)

21. Military man in play, perhaps (3,7)

22. Locate ties this way (4)

Down

2. Fortune made by nuclear scientist? (6,4)

3. Hurried to Gateshead and tried to telephone (4)

4. Split yet refuse to be separated (6)

5. Stopped talking when put in prison? (4,2)

6. Armband or two allowed (8)

7. Put ten in the goal immediately after! (4)

11. Get the lips to form wishes for sound rest (5,5)

13. Enter horse which could prove a liability? (3,1,4)

16. Ancient deity has nothing to gain by an election (6)

17. What one has to do to everybody else to get a lot (6)

18. Stroke resulting from uprising by abstainer (4)

20. They are expected to make sound judgments, of course (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Tie (4)

8. Circuitous (10)

9. Shame (8)

10. Snare (4)

12. Lethal (6)

14. Reliable (6)

15. Maiden (6)

17. Enemy (6)

18. Inform (4)

19. Sparing (8)

21. Civility (10)

22. Attention (4)

Down

2. Unlettered (10)

3. Trail (4)

4. Madness (6)

5. Coming (6)

6. Recondite (8)

7. Pace (4)

11. Magnetic (10)

13. Renounce (8)

16. Encumber (6)

17. Animal food (6)

18. Kind (4)

20. Impetuous (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Repel; 8 Eye-wash; 9 Airless; 10 Trips; 12 Breaks down; 15 Detachment; 18 Sower; 19 Dallier; 21 Borders; 22 Views.

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Down: 1 Broadsides; 2 Apart; 3 Flue; 4 Persia; 5 Jettison; 6 Capitol; 11 Songstress; 13 Recorder; 14 Athwart; 16 Modish; 17 Lived; 20 Levi.

QUICK

Across: 7 Hotel; 8 Stoical; 9 Rampage; 10 Crumb; 12 Disdainful; 15 Infatuated; 18 Therm; 19 Resound; 21 Excited; 22 Glass.

Down: 1 Pharmacist; 2 Stamp; 3 Plea; 4 Ascend; 5 Conceive; 6 Scruffy; 11 Balderdash; 13 Intimate; 14 Offence; 16 Abrade; 17 Sugar; 20 Sage.

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