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 25th Oct 2010, 11:01 BST
Updated 25th Oct 2010, 11:05 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Humiliate the unpretentious (6)

4. Encumber with a basket (6)

9. Cash table seen written out in these (7,6)

10. Point to two animals with a witty remark (7)

11. A terrible scare at Ascot, perhaps (5)

12. Used to be more writing on insects (5)

14. Do our experiments leave a smell? (5)

18. Celia changes her name (5)

19. Very angry about English article on charity project (4,3)

21. Meditation on mental topic perhaps (13)

22. Tell about Tralee (6)

23. Intimidates dead relations (6)

Down

1. He has to make beer for an Israelite (6)

2. Toil until a man builds a large company (13)

3. Row the right vessel (5)

5. Stuck with the crazy redhead (7)

6. It holds your attention before a job (13)

7. Refrain from upsetting Sister (6)

8. Man returns a paper on micro-organisms (5)

13. Give now! (7)

15. Can red upset the ballerina? (6)

16. Cricketers' mistakes (5)

17. A teacher is a handsome young man (6)

20. Victoria and Albert when at a Finnish port (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Wither up (6)

4. Easy (6)

9. A business (13)

10. Confused (7)

11. Muscle (5)

12. Greyish (5)

14. Blemish (5)

18. Correct (5)

19. Hopelessness (7)

21. Dismay (13)

22. Sifted (6)

23. Shed (4-2)

Down

1. Whiten (6)

2. Intractableness (13)

3. Custom (5)

5. Dwell in (7)

6. Quibbling (13)

7. Scope (6)

8. Throw (5)

13. Give right to (7)

15. Brawl (6)

16. Idolise (5)

17. Quickly (6)

20. Flood (5)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 4 Run-down; 8 Ambled; 9 Steeple; 10 Motive; 11 Random; 12 Redesign; 18 Old Glory; 20 Whiten; 21 Pastel; 22 Fuchsia; 23 Stunts; 24 Odyssey.

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Down: 1 Farmers; 2 Ebbtide; 3 Leaves; 5 Unturned; 6 Duenna; 7 Willow; 13 Ironside; 14 No stone; 15 Cyclist; 16 Should; 17 Itches; 19 Grafts.

QUICK

Across: 4 Heinous; 8 Launch; 9 Strange; 10 Emblem; 11 Relent; 12 Aversion; 18 Colossal; 20 Rather; 21 Divers; 22 Hearsay; 23 Pursue; 24 Dresser.

Down: 1 Illegal; 2 Tumbler; 3 Access; 5 External; 6 Nearly; 7 Urgent; 13 Increase; 14 Asperse; 15 Fluster; 16 Career; 17 Chorus; 19 Odious.