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 5th Oct 2010, 11:10 BST
Updated 5th Oct 2010, 11:13 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Sat in gaol devastated by yearning for days of old (9)

8. Gas-burner absolutely black (3)

9. Blow that causes fatal seizure? (5-6)

11. The money that is needed for a club (7)

12. Instruct the first of the travellers before the tour is arranged (5)

13. Final score for the reserves last month (6)

15. One of many in a revolution showing a certain amount of heat (6)

17. Escort you, me and the girl (5)

18. They won't stand for being painted (7)

20. They accompany each other from class to home! (6-5)

22. I will follow the Spanish priest (3)

23. The Moon produces little change in rough sea (9)

Down

2. Be indebted for a letter, by the sound of it (3)

3. The remains of high explosive in a vessel (5)

4. Threaten to go out of water channel (6)

5. An appointment with the French evangelist (7)

6. It causes the pilot's sudden discharge (7-4)

7. Advocates revision of neat story (9)

10. Lack of sensation in the theatre (11)

11. Coarse hub adapted for old-fashioned two-seaters (9)

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14. They provide timber for fifty rustic garden features (7)

16. Accompany the commanding officer with the rest dispersed around (6)

19. Terriers and military leaders heard in Sri Lanka (5)

21. Amphibian returning in abject fear (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Commemorate (9)

8. Barley beard (3)

9. Furnace (11)

11. Knee-cap (7)

12. Principle (5)

13. Invertebrate (6)

15. Leash (6)

17. Bend (5)

18. Rejection (7)

20. Forefather (11)

22. Tree (3)

23. Therapy (9)

Down

2. Epoch (3)

3. Trite (5)

4. Antenna (6)

5. Permit (7)

6. Brackets (11)

7. Artificial (9)

10. Calamity (11)

11. Main (9)

14. Mild (7)

16. Ice (6)

19. Swift (5)

21. Possess (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Operas; 8 Boring; 10 Fall out; 11 Pause; 12 Rock; 13 Slyly; 17 Yearn; 18 Clue; 22 Alias; 23 Outlast; 24 Endive; 25 Screen.

Down: 1 Confirm; 2 Wedlock; 3 Major; 4 Compile; 5 Tie-up; 6 Agree; 9 Stillroom; 14 Pensive; 15 Cleaver; 16 Destiny; 19 Paled; 20 Hindu; 21 Stock.

QUICK

Across: 7 Trader; 8 Morose; 10 Pensive; 11 Range; 12 Nigh; 13 Cargo; 17 Hotel; 18 Grow; 22 Right; 23 Cleaver; 24 Twitch; 25 Snatch.

Down: 1 Stipend; 2 Carnage; 3 Peril; 4 Courage; 5 Mount; 6 Sever; 9 Decadence; 14 Contact; 15 Private; 16 Swarthy; 19 Wrath; 20 Again; 21 Being.