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 29th Apr 2011, 10:31 BST
Updated 29th Apr 2011, 11:14 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

4. English man gets Edward ejected (7)

8. Possibly rail at the rope (6)

9. Man with a French coin and one shilling (7)

10. Please get out when dormant (6)

11. Pull a bird going to church (6)

12. Putting wire on a motorway is friendly (8)

18. Love to get about the town at speed (8)

20. Country hat (6)

21. Bird with small back found in the mine (6)

22. Eastern European country is right to love madness (7)

23. Book right on the shelf (6)

24. Waiting - in a waiting room? (7)

Down

1. Calendar girl can return (7)

2. Tell sir about the climbing frame (7)

3. Approached an artist with a photographic device (6)

5. Extremely healthy or just all right (4,4)

6. Run in a trance, perhaps (6)

7. Show the English man (6)

13. A German boy without a girl (8)

14. Large hairpieces worn by important people (7)

15. Seafood found in different storeys (7)

16. Father bringing an animal back to the temple (6)

17. Get a sausage as mail is sorted (6)

19. Old boy looked at and followed (6)

Quick puzzle

Across

4. Irony (7)

8. Tremble (6)

9. Narrative (7)

10. Overseas (6)

11. Wriggle (6)

12. Powerless (8)

18. Begin (8)

20. Diversion (6)

21. Hit (6)

22. Current (7)

23. Swamp (6)

24. Long (7)

Down

1. Muslim (7)

2. Breach (7)

3. Leave (6)

5. Habituate (8)

6. Refrain (6)

7. Various (6)

13. Intrude (8)

14. Brutal (7)

15. Hungry (7)

16. Shed (6)

17. Advent (6)

19. Movement (6)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Impressions; 9 Hoy; 10 Lethargic; 11 Essay; 13 Fritter; 14 Warned; 16 By-laws; 18 Imagine; 19 False; 20 Helvetian; 21 Hit; 22 Stately home.

Down: 2 May; 3 Rally; 4 Set off; 5 Inanity; 6 Nightfall; 7 Wheelwright; 8 Score-sheets; 12 Streamlet; 15 Evident; 17 Menial; 19 Finch; 21 Hem.

QUICK

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Across: 1 Pessimistic; 9 Own; 10 Diagnosis; 11 Tacky; 13 Routine; 14 Ornate; 16 Pliant; 18 Extreme; 19 Wrest; 20 Stanchion; 21 Loo; 22 Anaesthetic.

Down: 2 Eon; 3 Sadly; 4 Meagre; 5 Sensual; 6 Instigate; 7 Controversy; 8 Ostentation; 12 Constrain; 15 Treacle; 17 Resist; 19 Wince; 21 Lei.