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 2nd Jun 2011, 10:06 BST
Updated 2nd Jun 2011, 11:25 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Recognised a sound novel (4)

8. Paste diamond sent on hire, maybe (10)

9. Sweetmeat I will put in dough mixture (8)

10. From the helicopter I'm surveying the borders (4)

12. Test paper with its own solution (6)

14. It's not played by present schoolchildren (6)

15. Suitably equipped for those who are boring (6)

17. Show significance of French memorandum (6)

18. It surrounds a revolver and gets blown up (4)

19. Science equipment to examine underground system (4-4)

21. Could it be the cry of the triumphant chess-player? (6,4)

22. A mere pigment (4)

Down

2. Celebrated personage showing negative potential! (10)

3. Common sense about the right legal document (4)

4. See 13 Down.

5. About foreign money of modern times (6)

6. Top of the bill to begin a run in variety (4-4)

7. They are used for spraying aircraft (4)

11. Very small volume kept by the secretary (6-4)

13 And 4 Down. Areas that are attractive to the student of physics (8,6)

16. Excessive fondness for senility? (6)

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17. Consternation when Sam gets upset in tackling his own household jobs! (6)

18. As far as the doctor is concerned, it's a grave situation (4)

20. Supply information to William Archer (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Difficult (4)

8. Exterminate (10)

9. Despairing (8)

10. Happy (4)

12. Unnatural (6)

14. Alter (6)

15. Victor (6)

17. Assemble (6)

18. Equal (4)

19. Intrepid (8)

21. Franchise (10)

22. Retain (4)

Down

2. Car (10)

3. Stupefy (4)

4. Mean (6)

5. Medicine (6)

6. Glaring (8)

7. Remit (4)

11. Pugnacious (10)

13. Agreement (8)

16. Deny (6)

17. Free (6)

18. Select (4)

20. Connection (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Ahead; 8 Hardest; 9 In train; 10 Pound; 12 Upper-class; 15 Listlessly; 18 Years; 19 Recover; 21 Everest; 22 Bride.

Down: 1 Rationally; 2 Betty; 3 Edna; 4 Change; 5 Tropical; 6 Secular; 11 Discharged; 13 Polished; 14 Ashamed; 16 Sprite; 17 Avoid; 20 Cube.

QUICK

Across: 7 Inure; 8 Eyesore; 9 Hatchet; 10 Idiom; 12 Attraction; 15 Modernised; 18 Natal; 19 Capital; 21 Blossom; 22 Flirt.

Down: 1 Highwayman; 2 Gusto; 3 Mesh; 4 Letter; 5 Mediocre; 6 Solicit; 11 Manipulate; 13 Tireless; 14 Edition; 16 Income; 17 Staid; 20 Puff.