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. Cry when arrested (6)

4. Go to mend (6)

9. Plenty in need, perhaps, around Land's End and without help (13)

10. Right to amend (7)

11. The engineers in that place (5)

12. Material did not stand out (5)

14. Perfect - I give out cards (5)

18. Big and regal, perhaps (5)

19. Gather it's a festival (7)

21. It might restrict eligibility (13)

22. Level with the Spanish team (6)

23. Shouts of approval for the toast (6)

Down

1. Sharp spasmodic pain from a suture (6)

2. Where you might see the price of delivering landing gear (13)

3. More than enough about maple (5)

5. Chosen to sit after standing (7)

6. The team-mate is out simultaneously (2,3,4,4)

7. Sounding like Frost's poems (6)

8. Groups of soldiers from Tunis, perhaps (5)

13. I see Tim going out to make a list (7)

15. Tablet that isn't good for teeth (6)

16. Arab leader hikes around (5)

17. Rock group? (6)

20. Attain what a boxer has (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Initiate (6)

4. Help (6)

9. Cleverly (13)

10. Pushes (7)

11. Retinue (5)

12. Polite (5)

14. Turf (5)

18. Pair (5)

19. Displaced person (7)

21. Inadvertent (13)

22. Of teeth (6)

23. Road (6)

Down

1. Fools (6)

2. Resolution (13)

3. Visits (5)

5. Refuge (7)

6. Obstinacy (13)

7. Irksome (6)

8. Booth (5)

13. Inactivity (7)

15. Teem (6)

16. Incorrect (5)

17. Pill (6)

20. Weak (5)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

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Across: 4 Evicted; 8 Lariat; 9 Francis; 10 Asleep; 11 Wrench; 12 Amicable; 18 Velocity; 20 Panama; 21 Peewit; 22 Romania; 23 Ledger; 24 Patient; Down: 1 Almanac; 2 Trellis; 3 Camera; 5 Very well; 6 Canter; 7 Evince; 13 Bavarian; 14 Bigwigs; 15 Oysters; 16 Pagoda; 17 Salami; 19 Obeyed

QUICK

Across: 4 Sarcasm; 8 Shiver; 9 Account; 10 Abroad; 11 Squirm; 12 Impotent; 18 Commence; 20 Detour; 21 Struck; 22 Topical; 23 Morass; 24 Lengthy; Down: 1 Islamic; 2 Disrupt; 3 Depart; 5 Accustom; 6 Chorus; 7 Sundry; 13 Encroach; 14 Inhuman; 15 Peckish; 16 Remove; 17 Coming; 19 Motion