Double Crossword

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Mountaineer's listing (11)

9. Returning bad fish (3)

10. Residents upset the nonconformist (9)

11. Game she played in the civil service (5)

13. Or is Les preparing food? (7)

14. A right-winger's pain (6)

16. Fashionable friend of the prisoner (6)

18. He has a lot of rows (7)

19. Tea he hid in a snake (5)

20. Lament nun wrote about the end of a marriage (9)

21. Part of a circle - the middle, perhaps (3)

22. Nat's resting and making drugs (11)

Down

2. Jack from Grenoble (3)

3. Ways of rebuilding domes (5)

4. Place where the roster is worked out (6)

5. One rat's awful crime (7)

6. Potato he's cooking for the medical man (9)

7. Auction lead off - the result can be instructive (11)

8. I never clear up - it doesn't matter (11)

12. People streaming out? (9)

15. He's a better man (7)

17. In order, say, to detain ... (6)

19. ... the bachelor visiting the Wash (5)

21. The appropriate tap-dancer (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Seized (11)

9. Finish (3)

10. Rot (9)

11. Possessed (5)

13. Animosity (7)

14. Writer (6)

16. Skimp (6)

18. Communication (7)

19. Lived (5)

20. Trembling (9)

21. Deity (3)

22. Unimaginable (11)

Down

2. Aged (3)

3. Withered (5)

4. Safe (6)

5. Calendar (7)

6. Save (9)

7. Inexorable (11)

8. Infirmity (11)

12. Recital (9)

15. Plead (7)

17. Flag (6)

19. Creed (5)

21. Solidify (3)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Stag; 3 Marchers; 9 Detract; 10 Users; 11 Acceleration; 13 Mapped; 15 Unwell; 17 Heart-rending; 20 Ocean; 21 Precast; 22 Pressing; 23 Stay.

Down: 1 Side-arms; 2 Attic; 4 Astern; 5 Countenances; 6 Eyesore; 7 So-so; 8 Ball bearings; 12 Slightly; 14 Precede; 16 Trepan; 18 Inapt; 19 Hoop.

QUICK

Across: 1 Prey; 3 Smoulder; 9 Defunct; 10 Admit; 11 Conservatory; 13 Ratify; 15 Bottom; 17 Prerequisite; 20 Preen; 21 Ageless; 22 Tattered; 23 Clad.

Down: 1 Pedicure; 2 Elfin; 4 Motive; 5 Unauthorised; 6 Demerit; 7 Rota; 8 Interference; 12 Immersed; 14 Torrent; 16 Square; 18 Ideal; 19 Spot.