Double Crossword

Cryptic puzzle

Across

6. Follows the proposer in support in a very short time (7)

7. Heard signal for waiters to line up (5)

9. Frightened with lots of blows? (5)

10. Valour needed for us to live to be 100? (7)

12. No charge for stonework for secret society practice (11)

14. Best course time in past achievements (5,6)

18. Frugal use of article in season (7)

19. Novelist as robust... (5)

21. ...as Poe could be a fabulous writer (5)

22. There's nothing in a sailing vessel being lavishly decorated (7)

Down

1. Material from a pit, dug up (5)

2. Lodger loses article at the frontier (6)

3. She follows 20 in the country (3)

4. Nothing under two pints of size for paper (6)

5. Going round a starving country (7)

8. Love-affair can trouble in European capital (7)

11. Maritime circle that will wither? (7)

13. Producer of harvest in the fall (7)

15. Farm vehicle atop box (6)

16. Common sense concerning a boy (6)

17. Sum to make sense (3,2)

20. Is able to preserve in metal container (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

6. A few (7)

7. Cringe (5)

9. Change (5)

10. Admit (7)

12. Earthly (11)

14. Worsen (11)

18. Hide (7)

19. Forbidden (5)

21. Glad (5)

22. Feathers (7)

Down

1. Domain (5)

2. Ebb (6)

3. Blackguard (3)

4. Agree (6)

5. Progress (7)

8. Spouse (7)

11. Coming (7)

13. Divestiture (7)

15. But (6)

16. Shock (6)

17. Evade (5)

20. Cunning (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Single file; 7 Realm; 8 Chaotic; 10 Peerless; 11 Stem; 13 Expose; 15 Cresol; 17 Owls; 18 Plectrum; 21 Faction; 22 Eaten; 23 Antithesis.

Down: 1 Space; 2 Nameless; 3 Locust; 4 Fray; 5 Litotes; 6 Dropped off; 9 Compliment; 12 Crackers; 14 Pelican; 16 Plinth; 19 Rates; 20 Mini.

QUICK

Across: 1 Manuscript; 7 Alarm; 8 Caustic; 10 Retarded; 11 Sham; 13 Colour; 15 Spiral; 17 Oath; 18 Sporadic; 21 Seizure; 22 Input; 23 Despondent.

Down: 1 Meant; 2 Numerous; 3 Sacred; 4 Rout; 5 Pitcher; 6 Capricious; 9 Complicity; 12 Appraise; 14 Lattice; 16 Spleen; 19 Depot; 20 Dump.