Double crossword 01/07/2011

Cryptic puzzle

Across

4. Sounds like part of a sentence for breaches of the peace (7)

8. A defect in the hose, but it's used by the fireman (6)

9. Don't leave in gear (7)

10. Plays the ace, maybe! (6)

11. In the descant he makes a choral contribution (6)

12. Break up the joint (8)

18. She creates friction and the U.S.A. seems disturbed (8)

20. Company sure to modify training programme (6)

21. Prevent progress by craft (6)

22. Describing a hand given by one friend after another (7)

23. A customer for the restaurant proprietor (6)

24. One's early years in imagination (7)

Down

1. Is a shutter needed to produce this photograph? (5-2)

2. Prepare to use a club to make a speech (7)

3. Food that comes in instalments, we hear (6)

5. An arrangement of neat firs appreciated by the aesthete (4,4)

6. Artist and I try to change almost unique piece (6)

7. They are predisposed to indicate agreement (3-3)

13. Home maid (8)

14. Bookmakers (7)

15. Receiving news of the trial (7)

16. I am returning when the fellow is around the estate (6)

17. Punishable offence near a theatre of war (6)

19. Sounds like a vice levy with which grammarians are acquainted (6)

Quick puzzle

Across

4. Competition (7)

8. Disturbance (6)

9. Progress (7)

10. Carry (6)

11. Avaricious (6)

12. Wrangle (8)

18. Recover (8)

20. Self-confidence (6)

21. Gratify (6)

22. Solace (7)

23. Actually (2,4)

24. Think (7)

Down

1. Exact (7)

2. Threatening (7)

3. Splendid (6)

5. Poor (8)

6. Rouse (6)

7. Ebb (6)

13. Uncivilised (8)

14. Escape (3-4)

15. Under (7)

16. Resist (6)

17. Wretched (6)

19. Soften (6)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Dissymmetry; 9 Bay; 10 Institute; 11 Excel; 13 Reredos; 14 Teller; 16 Farmer; 18 Emirate; 19 Denim; 20 Spectacle; 21 Tan; 22 Astronomers.

Down: 2 Icy; 3 Still; 4 Misery; 5 Eritrea; 6 Roundsman; 7 Absenteeism; 8 Measurement; 12 Callipers; 15 Exactor; 17 Beacon; 19 Dream; 21 Tar.

QUICK - Across: 1 Inheritance; 9 End; 10 Orchestra; 11 Fussy; 13 Trawler; 14 Regale; 16 Weight; 18 Adipose; 19 Piece; 20 Criterion; 21 Spa; 22 Odds and ends.

Down: 2 Nod; 3 Ebony; 4 Incite; 5 Average; 6 Catalogue; 7 Performance; 8 Carry the can; 12 Signified; 15 Lioness; 17 Design; 19 Pence; 21 Sad.