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 3rd Jan 2011, 08:55 BST
Updated 3rd Jan 2011, 08:58 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Being fond of smart clothes wins some of the padre's sympathy (6)

4. Do return notes of debt, though it's hateful (6)

9. Capability of appreciating organ in retaliatory justice (2,3,3,2,3)

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10. Rocky projection will apparently produce better harvest (7)

11. 6 in 1 of sheep (5)

12. Flinch at victory by church (5)

14. Conductor of a poem (5)

18. Article removed from dirty relation (5)

19. Colonist is a compiler, about 50 (7)

21. Report of printers' strike? (4-5,4)

22. Attractive, thanks to monarch (6)

23. Go one man short at football and get defeated? (6)

Down

1. Continue tediously about fabulous monster? (6)

2. Current time-keeper (8,5)

3. Cut hair from hares (5)

5. Persecute 1 Down about nothing (7)

6. Too ready to disregard faults of revolting nude (13)

7. You and I in bad ends in the country (6)

8. Animal pretending to be shy before uprising (5)

13. Belittle each broken writer (7)

15. Gets us strengthening insertion (6)

16. Wakes in a crooked position (5)

17. Is into wicked porn in jail (6)

20. State flavour of it (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Cleanliness (6)

4. Wild (6)

9. Recurrence (13)

10. Overburden (7)

11. Vigilant (5)

12. Adhere (5)

14. Slap (5)

18. Claw (5)

19. Detergent (7)

21. Backdated (13)

22. Last (6)

23. Infestation (6)

Down

1. Bird (6)

2. Summarised (13)

3. Ceasefire (5)

5. Applause (7)

6. Patronising (13)

7. Abundance (6)

8. Poetry (5)

13. Frankness (7)

15. Famish (6)

16. Compass (5)

17. Mourn (6)

20. Surpass (5)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 4 Postman; 8 Enrols; 9 Hectare; 10 Haggis; 11 Arouse; 12 Penchant; 18 Surgeons; 20 Credit; 21 Landau; 22 Pyjamas; 23 Belong; 24 Density.

Down: 1 Perhaps; 2 Brigand; 3 Sleigh; 5 Operator; 6 Tattoo; 7 Arrest; 13 Abstract; 14 Roadhog; 15 Assuage; 16 Argyle; 17 Ideals; 19 Glared.

QUICK

Across: 4 Account; 8 Aghast; 9 Unnerve; 10 Denial; 11 Unlock; 12 Gangling; 18 Palliate; 20 Burial; 21 Famous; 22 Compact; 23 Senior; 24 Prelate.

Down: 1 Bandage; 2 Shining; 3 Assail; 5 Conjugal; 6 Openly; 7 Novice; 13 Implicit; 14 Calorie; 15 Berserk; 16 Humour; 17 Dispel; 19 Loaded.