Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Jams ever spilt in the newspapers (9)

8. Advance or reverse the vehicle (3)

9. Could insure order is unbelieving (11)

11. Knock on the door and say goodbye to the sailor who's returning (7)

12. A pound of coal ordered for the pub (5)

13. Longing to reside elsewhere (6)

15. Anger a green revolutionary (6)

17. Universal argument over a pound note (5)

18. Communist man's about right - it's new (7)

20. An allowance to keep my con up (6,5)

22. Note the brick-carrier's fallen over (3)

23. At any rate a dead end, perhaps (9)

Down

2. Manage to go fast (3)

3. A hundred in the broken tree get upright (5)

4. Springs over the strongrooms (6)

5. Len's low somehow being puffed up (7)

6. Connection with society (11)

7. Point to a new bulletin being exuberant (9)

10. One gets in to stop the car crash becoming a disaster (11)

11. Rudd swore wildly using these (4,5)

14. I'd get Clara to change and become an extremist (7)

16. Nothing in a crude beam but an organism (6)

19. Send an order of merit (5)

21. Completely finished city (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Cruel (9)

8. Pen-point (3)

9. Effective (11)

11. Sign (7)

12. Managed (5)

13. Enrol (6)

15. Old coin (6)

17. Play (5)

18. Cordial (7)

20. Insolent (11)

22. Pose (3)

23. Profitable (9)

Down

2. Sprite (3)

3. Implied (5)

4. Pitch tents (6)

5. Unfeeling (7)

6. Insurmountable (11)

7. Affluence (9)

10. Intimacy (11)

11. Resolute (9)

14. More pungent (7)

16. Slender (6)

19. Monk (5)

21. Sister (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Tripod; 8 Orange; 10 Account; 11 Plain; 12 Till; 13 Onset; 17 Draft; 18 Keen; 22 Barge; 23 Reverie; 24 Defile; 25 Rising.

Down: 1 Stealth; 2 Lincoln; 3 Bogus; 4 Prophet; 5 In-law; 6 Verne; 9 Stand firm; 14 Briefly; 15 Detroit; 16 Undergo; 19 Abode; 20 Craft; 21 Avoid.

QUICK

Across: 7 Island; 8 Furore; 10 Numeric; 11 Bring; 12 Flow; 13 Guild; 17 Grade; 18 Glib; 22 Groom; 23 Expunge; 24 Nibble; 25 Fabric.

Down: 1 Signify; 2 Flummox; 3 Snarl; 4 Quibble; 5 Comic; 6 Feign; 9 Scoundrel; 14 Crumple; 15 Plenary; 16 Absence; 19 Agony; 20 Hobby; 21 Spray.