Double Crossword

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

Cryptic puzzle

Across

3. Order treatment before the writer (9)

8. In such a car, a rear window is unusual (4)

9. Attacker makes idiot suffer before worker (9)

10. Does one have to be marred to get a return, then? (6)

11. Cut verse (5)

14. Dispense with a view (5)

15. A tear for the letting? (4)

16. She is not quite of the usual standard (5)

18 And 20 Across. Car loader at the end of carriageway repairs (4,5)

20. See 18 Across.

21. Allowed to go round because smallest (5)

24. Wartime leader found bent nail on street (6)

25. Sneer at poor diet range (9)

26. Many in the sale (4)

27. Can use gin without stopping (9)

Down

1. Vexed utterance is a puzzle (9)

2. Capital sum for the college head (9)

4. Flower got bigger (4)

5. A test for the country (5)

6. Wave or wave-maker? (6)

7. Run away to find somewhere to sleep (4)

9. Foreign article contains untruth (5)

11. Traps mackerel-catcher (5)

12. Revolting beast rising (9)

13. Severity at the back? (9)

17. Sharp accent (5)

19. Pollute a narrow valley (6)

22. Types one is not very well out of (5)

23. Incline to be the reverse of fat (4)

24. Stupefy some of the most unlikely people (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

3. Gloomy (9)

8. Smooth (4)

9. Mixture (9)

10. Outcome (6)

11. Wielded (5)

14. Cleave (5)

15. Close (4)

16. Grating (5)

18. Assemblage (4)

20. Audibly (5)

21. Digress (5)

24. Item (6)

25. Abandonment (9)

26. Pulsate (4)

27. Thwart (9)

Down

1. Tedious (9)

2. Unending (9)

4. Jeer (4)

5. Banish (5)

6. Diminish (6)

7. Location (4)

9. Duster (5)

11. Faction (5)

12. Devastated (9)

13. Gullibility (9)

17. Harbour (5)

19. Emphasis (6)

22. Change (5)

23. Cherished (4)

24. Dullard (4)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Lids; 3 Sterling; 8 Fast; 9 Initiate; 11 Housebreaker; 13 Lassie; 14 Stench; 17 Small mercies; 20 Capitals; 21 Sham; 22 Eldorado; 23 Wren.

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Down: 1 Left-half; 2 Discuss; 4 Tenure; 5 Retractors; 6 Inane; 7 Grey; 10 Legislator; 12 Chessman; 15 Neither; 16 Smiled; 18 Moped; 19 Acne.

QUICK - Across: 1 Desk; 3 Agrarian; 8 Nice; 9 Comprise; 11 Maiden voyage; 13 Tongue; 14 Lissom; 17 Supernatural; 20 Outdated; 21 Disc; 22 Faltered; 23 Next.

Down: 1 Dynamite; 2 Suction; 4 Groove; 5 Asphyxiate; 6 Icing; 7 Need; 10 Recuperate; 12 Implicit; 15 Service; 16 Inhere; 18 Until; 19 Loaf.