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 29th Sep 2010, 16:08 BST
Updated 1st Oct 2010, 11:04 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

3. Following what the exhibitor is doing about notice (9)

8. Frank is on about physical education (4)

9. Discover geological feature and carp (4,5)

10. It's handled by one with a mortar-board (6)

11. Capital cover for a Gallic type (5)

14. Degrade in a low voice, we hear (5)

15. Makes a good pudding filling! (4)

16. They make a radical system for reshaping the torso (5)

18. Variation in the main sounds restricted (4)

20. It could be a feature of simple attire (5)

21. Sign of a serial endlessly varied (5)

24. Go in search of cattle food (6)

25. Walk to the cotton factory - it's sheer drudgery (9)

26. Stud manager (4)

27. Father's to think much of clerical office (9)

Down

1. That's changed in attitude very quickly (4-5)

2. Norma made various notes (9)

4. Salutation having no ill-feeling, one hears (4)

5. Manage to avoid a crafty artifice (5)

6. Makes sinuous movements, as a man of the cloth does (6)

7. Flower that's blue and white (4)

9. Always following the beginning of flu! (5)

11. Takes one's name and makes a reservation (5)

12. What the fiddler does before and after his recital (5,1,3)

13. Has set out in different direction (5-4)

17. Film "The River in the Sun" (5)

19. Quixotic description of a knight (6)

22. Ethel Merman's middle name (5)

23. A long time returning to a region (4)

24. Out of tune, so no longer sparkling (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

3. Crisis (9)

8. Rank (4)

9. Eighty (9)

10. Assemble (6)

11. Category (5)

14. Godly (5)

15. Secure (4)

16. Fling (5)

18. Woe! (4)

20. Lessen (5)

21. Slack (5)

24. Refrain (6)

25. Postpone (5,4)

26. Profit (4)

27. Blizzard (9)

Down

1. Drama (9)

2. Departmental (9)

4. Tie up (4)

5. Countryside (5)

6. Surplus (6)

7. Remedy (4)

9. Banquet (5)

11. Swear (5)

12. Devilish (9)

13. Contrite (9)

17. Vacillate (5)

19. Sadness (6)

22. Bellow (5)

23. Chief (4)

24. Expensive (4)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Char; 3 Clematis; 8 Army; 9 Obdurate; 11 Manslaughter; 13 Nicked; 14 Aramis; 17 Schoolmaster; 20 Hesitate; 21 Vain; 22 Skeleton; 23 Were.

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Down: 1 Coalmine; 2 Almanac; 4 Labour; 5 Mouth organ; 6 Trade; 7 Stem; 10 Bluebottle; 12 Estrange; 15 Methane; 16 Blotto; 18 Caste; 19 Ohms

QUICK

Across: 1 Fate; 3 Sadistic; 8 Ride; 9 Converge; 11 Conversation; 13 Tissue; 14 Starve; 17 Afterthought; 20 Elevator; 21 Flee; 22 Suddenly; 23 Trot.

Down: 1 Ferocity; 2 Tidings; 4 Arouse; 5 Invitation; 6 Torso; 7 Chef; 10 Rejuvenate; 12 Vestment; 15 Regular; 16 Stroll; 18 Freed; 19 Less