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 8th Jun 2011, 10:33 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2011, 10:50 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. A little bit of a cat (4)

3. Getting terribly bored after conflict concerning clothes (8)

9. The copper taking a pound to trip up is the guilty one (7)

10. Material with which Silas wove (5)

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11. I go back to Vietnam in danger due to a selfish attitude (3,2,1,6)

13. Annoy with something sharp (6)

15. Numbers it's not odd to see in a ship (6)

17. Woo before marital problem leads to a trial (5,7)

20. Girl with some real ice-cream (5)

21. Incompetent worthy (7)

22. Useful person as a worker many upset (8)

23. Elizabeth's little wagers (4)

Down

1. Mishap as Bill and the police break the net (8)

2. POW camp of a prisoner (5)

4. Time for a fall (6)

5. Shatter inside target, perhaps (12)

6. Old boy finds part of a play disgusting (7)

7. The English bring everything back for her (4)

8. Theft of a thousand dollars? (5,7)

12. Books about staplers (8)

14. Note the return of a boy - a public schoolboy (7)

16. A male gets commercial reverse for a female (6)

18. Inspire the old soak (5)

19. Composer taking a graduate to church (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Lodgings (4)

3. Soak (8)

9. Muffle (7)

10. Cured meat (5)

11. Unprincipled (12)

13. Cruelty (6)

15. Segment (6)

17. Gathering (12)

20. Open (5)

21. Chivalrous (7)

22. Tale (8)

23. Aural (4)

Down

1. Camouflage (8)

2. Sheen (5)

4. Sudden (6)

5. Incredible (12)

6. Narrative (7)

7. Sea-eagle (4)

8. Myopic (5-7)

12. Frenzied (8)

14. See (7)

16. Altitude (6)

18. Inappropriate (5)

19. Stupor (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 6 Postern; 7 Pains; 9 Train; 10 Section; 12 Secretaries; 14 Sitting-room; 18 Rackets; 19 Minim; 21 Means; 22 Relight.

Down: 1 Hoard; 2 Stride; 3 Urn; 4 Factor; 5 Incomes; 8 Western; 11 Granite; 13 Visages; 15 Taking; 16 Origin; 17 Sighs; 20 Tea.

QUICK

Across: 6 Liberal; 7 Peril; 9 Vague; 10 Despite; 12

Repudiation; 14 Sympathetic; 18 Disobey; 19 Stray; 21 Anger; 22 Sadness.

Down: 1 Vital; 2 Refuse; 3 Gap; 4 Despot; 5 Diction; 8 Besides; 11 Further; 13 Hygiene; 15 Phoney; 16 Intent; 17 Raise; 20 Wan.