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 28th Oct 2010, 13:56 BST
Updated 28th Oct 2010, 13:58 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Some of the customers hoping to buy retail goods (4)

8. No specialist in sport (3-7)

9. Mix up their new bleaching agent (8)

10. To annul United Nations act (4)

12. Various plates will provide this kind of diet (6)

14. About the middle of January, clothing provides some constraint (6)

15. She may be seen coming from the bar (6)

17. See 18 Down

18. Shockingly troubling your eyesight, initially (4)

19. As attacking forwards, they don't work (8)

21. What those who appraise the situation do is intentional (10)

22. Make your way to western terminus (4)

Down

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2. Presumably this shopping area doesn't have a low profile (4,6)

3. Does one acquire it by a casting-vote? (4)

4. A member of the fair sex (6)

5. Came out of the spout, as heavy rain did (6)

6. Asks how stationery may be bought (8)

7. So it's a measure of work and nothing more (4)

11. Cause depression when he's in trade arrangement (10)

13. Epic that is unusually touching (8)

16. From the Europeans we received some response (6)

17. Indiscriminate Dorian incursion (6)

18 And 17 Across. Team publications presenting incidental matters (4-6)

20. Was aware of novel sound (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Record (4)

8. Commotion (5-5)

9. Tradesman (8)

10. Inlet (4)

12. Let (6)

14. Run (6)

15. Greet (6)

17. Shrewd (6)

18. Present (4)

19. Energy (8)

21. Noisy (10)

22. Minuscule (4)

Down

2. Confirmed (10)

3. Fashionable (4)

4. Mission (6)

5. Method (6)

6. Terse (8)

7. Wheel cover (4)

11. Plant life (10)

13. Memento (8)

16. Begrudged (6)

17. Deed (6)

18. Bees' home (4)

20. Wrecked (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Okapi; 8 Annexed; 9 Natural; 10 Tweak; 12 Drawing-pin; 15 Malingered; 18 Noise; 19 Repress; 21 Presume; 22 Apace.

Down: 1 Countryman; 2 Taste; 3 Tier; 4 Fallow; 5 Instance; 6 Excerpt; 11 Kingfisher; 13 Runner-up; 14 Claimed; 16 Earned; 17 Penal; 20 Pray.

QUICK

Across: 7 Lurch; 8 Twinned; 9 Minimum; 10 Climb; 12 Discipline; 15 Accustomed; 18 Taper; 19 Nuptial; 21 Acrobat; 22 Minus.

Down: 1 Flamboyant; 2 Prong; 3 Whim; 4 Atomic; 5 Disciple; 6 Insipid; 11 Breathless; 13 Inscribe; 14 Sceptre; 16 Ornate; 17 Fiend; 20 Pump.