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 14th Dec 2010, 08:50 BST
Updated 14th Dec 2010, 09:11 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. It is clean, perhaps, but not resilient (9)

8. Writer of some poetry? (3)

9. Put aside, right? (11)

11. A bad rule can be surprisingly long-lasting (7)

12. Use a cover, say ... (5)

13. ... or back two companies from the 18th century (6)

15. Have the edge in one Italian resort (6)

17. Came to love a piece of jewellery (5)

18. Agnes is ill after the French pasta dish (7)

20. Run heats of race-card (3,2,6)

22. Manage to sprint (3)

23. Statement about Senoritas (9)

Down

2. The tipster's choice has a sleep (3)

3. Frenchman with about a shilling gets a nuclear weapon (1-4)

4. Changing tenure of the vessel (6)

5. A man at one with Indian food (7)

6. Rage is prone to upset the diva (5,6)

7. Pulverise badly and make ugly (9)

10. Break up the firm supplying components (4,7)

11. Creditors upset the board (9)

14. Find hole in broken car is caused by disease (7)

16. Rock faces such as Mr. Richard's (6)

19. Guide the animal (5)

21. As well as excessively (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Engulf (7,2)

8. Fresh (3)

9. Wasteful (11)

11. Respire (7)

12. Original (5)

13. Chest (6)

15. Recess (6)

17. Precise (5)

18. Refined (7)

20. Undercarriage (7-4)

22. Enemy (3)

23. Folly (9)

Down

2. Increase (3)

3. Jumped (5)

4. Enfeeble (6)

5. Sportive (7)

6. Question (11)

7. Confection (9)

10. Abstainer (11)

11. Wealthier (6,3)

14. Feeler (7)

16. Negligent (6)

19. Keen (5)

21. Fit (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Impact; 4 Knocks; 9 Steering-wheel; 10 Drop off; 11 Elude; 12 Adore; 14 Nepal; 18 Lords; 19 Recline; 21 Window-cleaner; 22 Dreads; 23 Stalls.

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Down: 1 Inside; 2 Preponderance; 3 Curio; 5 Nowhere; 6 Coeducational; 7 Salver; 8 Unify; 13 Respond; 15 Flawed; 16 Trick; 17 Hearts; 20 Cleft.

QUICK

Across: 1 Recite; 4 Rascal; 9 Multicoloured; 10 Violent; 11 Issue; 12 Guise; 14 Thong; 18 Frame; 19 Voucher; 21 Stick-in-the-mud; 22 Timber; 23 Prompt.

Down: 1 Remove; 2 Colloquialism; 3 Twine; 5 Abolish; 6 Chrysanthemum; 7 Lodged; 8 Loath; 13 Speckle; 15 Offset; 16 Event; 17 Credit; 20 Usher