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. Its lot is to be soundly beaten (4)

8. Malaise causes animosity? (3-7)

9. Air got at one who stirs things up (8)

10. Could be a catch in this deep voice? (4)

12. Outcast has father with untidy hair (6)

14. One may find out he was a knight's attendant (6)

15. Standing half lost at American get-together (6)

17. Compared with dunderhead missing from near sick person (6)

18. Strait-laced, but not quite of the best quality (4)

19. Social gathering for politicians in Boston? (3-5)

21. Job centre? (4,6)

22. It states where what is left should go (4)

Down

2. Circus MC has to telephone expert (4-6)

3. Money-making herb? (4)

4. Tightly grasp part of car (6)

5. Almost never, not ever before time (6)

6. Artful person upsets bossy lot (8)

7. Initially attenuated, grew ever such a long time (4)

11. Stop - don't fidget! (10)

13. Suggest resident swallowed it up (8)

16. Begin to counterbalance (3,3)

17. Nut country (6)

18. Sharp operators hide church leader (4)

20. Article you and I write up afresh (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Present (4)

8. Play-list (10)

9. Youthful (8)

10. Volume (4)

12. Gag (6)

14. Fatal (6)

15. Stabbing weapon (6)

17. Waver (6)

18. Hide (4)

19. Dogma (8)

21. Certainty (10)

22. Deposit (4)

Down

2. Depict (10)

3. Loyal (4)

4. Elf (6)

5. Ally (6)

6. Difference (8)

7. Yield (4)

11. 1,000 years (10)

13. Runaway (8)

16. Lessen (6)

17. Fraud (6)

18. Step (4)

20. Peel (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Rider; 8 Oppress; 9 Neither; 10 Rolls; 12 Attendance; 15 Chess piece; 18 Nonet; 19 Several; 21 Tremble; 22 Items.

Down: 1 Franciscan; 2 Ad-lib; 3 Arch; 4 Source; 5 Sporadic; 6 Decline; 11 Speechless; 13 Test tube; 14 Meander; 16 Instep; 17 Brief; 20 Vain.

QUICK

Across: 7 Ochre; 8 Inquest; 9 Tempest; 10 Alarm; 12 Primordial; 15 Omnipotent; 18 Scour; 19 Glacial; 21 Machete; 22 Alien.

Down: 1 Posthumous; 2 Shame; 3 Fete; 4 Victim; 5 Squadron; 6 Regalia; 11 Malevolent; 13 Repartee; 14 Invoice; 16 Tugged; 17 Vigil; 20 Ajar.