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 22nd Dec 2010, 08:55 BST
Updated 22nd Dec 2010, 09:12 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Those who avail themselves of services rendered (6-5)

9. Censure for shocking pub assault (7)

10. Container in which you'll find some of the morphia left (5)

11. The result of summing up (5)

12. Ann unusually eager for this material (7)

13. Slip list in the book (6)

15. Stays in the wrong sector (6)

18. The gateman has become a big business operator (7)

20. The heart's regularly ordered beat, initially (5)

22. A capital ring for a lover (5)

23. Large part of the claim men settled (7)

24. Ten genially disposed in a graceless way (11)

Down

2. Usual procedure assumed by the rider (5)

3. Back a great many, we hear, to make a new distribution (7)

4. The kind of place for corporal punishment (6)

5. Prone to be disguised as an artist (5)

6. Dear Sir, those in the attack have been routed (7)

7. Promote a greater number as well (11)

8. They're used for surveying aircraft schedules (5-6)

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14. Prevailing system of discipline for nearly all the military body (7)

16. A motto put up by northern Turk (7)

17. Margaret holding the money for rationing out (6)

19. Everybody goes round to the island (5)

21. Somehow learn to describe glands affected by nephritis (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Argumentative (11)

9. Judge (7)

10. Repose (5)

11. Material (5)

12. Umbrella (7)

13. Prestige (6)

15. Coma (6)

18. Eminent (7)

20. Scope (5)

22. Trunk (5)

23. Lose hope (7)

24. Forewarning (11)

Down

2. Of a town (5)

3. Suite (7)

4. Absorbed (6)

5. Safer (5)

6. Effeminate man (7)

7. Have illusions (11)

8. Searching out (11)

14. Purveyor (7)

16. Passage (7)

17. Sinew (6)

19. Besom (5)

21. Well done! (5)

Tuesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Impunity; 5 Amps; 9 Fast; 10 Alfresco; 11 Quail; 12 Violent; 13 Meadow saffron; 18 Napoleon; 19 Avid; 20 Opiates; 21 Piton; 22 Rhea; 23 Sturgeon.

Down: 2 Measure; 3 Untried; 4 Television set; 6 Masseur; 7 Shorten; 8 Cry off; 13 Man-hour; 14 Apprise; 15 Owlets; 16 Flaming; 17 Orinoco.

QUICK

Across: 1 Champion; 5 Drab; 9 Pair; 10 Attitude; 11 Choir; 12 Inexact; 13 Indispensable; 18 Sympathy; 19 Cane; 20 Portion; 21 Label; 22 Duty; 23 Ceremony.

Down: 2 Heathen; 3 Martini; 4 Outside chance; 6 Rhubarb; 7 Breathe; 8 Biceps; 13 Insipid; 14 Demerit; 15 Static; 16 Acclaim; 17 Lantern.