Double Crossword
Cryptic puzzle
Across
1. Rob had no right to get the only perfume becoming dated (11)
9. Air lies about Middle Easterner (7)
10. One direction or another is not so good (5)
11. Workers' dealings? (5)
12. Omit to indicate spinster not at home (4,3)
13. Thus a Communist reached the heights (6)
15. Diviner, though not more heavenly (6)
18. Break chair to get back bean (7)
20. The subject to choose, almost (5)
22. Wicked ring brought back oil producer (5)
23. State time lived to be mean (7)
24. Zodiacal sign not divulged by officer workers? (11)
Down
2. Poet Ronald was the author (5)
3. Observe too much to give supervision? (7)
4. Mystery in game (6)
5. 100 birds have hoods (5)
6. Highly strung nurse goes out about five to ring (7)
7. In which enlightenment counters darkness? (5,6)
8. Insect on trial in international game (4,7)
14. Does it enable one to breathe while flying? (7)
16. Spoil clothes for the open air by overuse? (7)
17. Finally working as a cobbler, perhaps (2,4)
19. In this sort of 'miracle' artful deception is obvious (5)
21. Location of article missing from royal residence (5)
Quick puzzle
Across
1. Possible (11)
9. Indigenous (7)
10. Drill (5)
11. Slack (5)
12. Sailor (7)
13. Bifurcate (6)
15. Rotten (6)
18. Tent (7)
20. Live (5)
22. Wanderer (5)
23. Famous (7)
24. Question (11)
Down
2. Wireless (5)
3. Rival (7)
4. Revenue (6)
5. Change (5)
6. Student (7)
7. Successor (11)
8. Disbelief (11)
14. Rower (7)
16. Downfall (7)
17. Facing (6)
19. Excessive (5)
21. Use (5)
Wednesday's solutions
CRYPTIC
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Hide AdAcross: 1 Outright; 5 Onus; 9 Aces; 10 Automate; 11 Overt; 12 Exclaim; 13 Greetings card; 18 Sea-fight; 19 Tame; 20 Apostle; 21 Spell; 22 Ogre; 23 As it were.
Down: 2 Uncover; 3 Reserve; 4 House on wheels; 6 Niagara; 7 Steamed; 8 Forces; 13 Gestapo; 14 Enamour; 15 Thirty; 16 Catspaw; 17 Rambler.
QUICK
Across: 1 Derision; 5 Spin; 9 Wash; 10 Striking; 11 Dummy; 12 Inexact; 13 Pennilessness; 18 Eyesight; 19 Turn; 20 Glisten; 21 Broom; 22 Sign; 23 Feckless.
Down: 2 Erasure; 3 Inhuman; 4 Outside chance; 6 Private; 7 Negates; 8 Divers; 13 Pledges; 14 Needing; 15 Idiots; 16 Natural; 17 Serious.