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. Speech repeated ambiguously? (6-4)

7. The privilege of being correct? (5)

8. Longed for deanery to be rebuilt (7)

10. Links with teeth, presumably (5-3)

11. Makes excavations for somewhere to live (4)

13. It can, of course, be irritating to the gardener (6)

15. Child's horse, we hear, in wind, turns out to be geese! (6)

17. Make a request after tip-top job (4)

18. Uneasy because the others don't get so much? (8)

21. As we all might be a defence against water (3-4)

22. Reams written to defame (5)

23. Resolved to put off when dug up (10)

Down

1. Closely follow mother in doctrine (5)

2. Lent a gun to sort out the problems (8)

3. Non-professional singer? (6)

4. Snare part put up (4)

5. Coming down to earth from the top of the stairs? (7)

6. Girl draws attention to musical embellishments (5,5)

9. Any spiders destroyed where medicines are made up (10)

12. Train sap to be unreasoning adherent (8)

14. Sole act drawn up in proportion (2,5)

16. Blamed for producing madhouse (6)

19. Set me up at the finish to make corrections (5)

20. Dull, having become submissive? (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Loyalty (10)

7. Fold (5)

8. Mollusc (7)

10. Old-fashioned (8)

11. Jetty (4)

13. Relinquish (6)

15. Slumbering (6)

17. Monster (4)

18. Diatribe (8)

21. Carnal (7)

22. Fragrance (5)

23. Lewdness (10)

Down

1. Lively (5)

2. Apathy (8)

3. Panted (6)

4. Distant (4)

5. Crash into (7)

6. Tumultuous (10)

9. On outskirts (10)

12. Increase rapidly (8)

14. Alien (7)

16. Celtic (6)

19. Magnificence (5)

20. Atmosphere (4)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 3 Ascension; 8 Idea; 9 Garibaldi; 10 Catchy; 11 Stain; 14 Weeds; 15 Coda; 16 Tries; 18 Rail; 20 Czech; 21 Tease; 24 Secant; 25 Bagatelle; 26 Here; 27 Adversity;

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Down: 1 Piece-work; 2 Centre-bit; 4 Sway; 5 Exist; 6 Static; 7 Odds; 9 Ghost; 11 Seine; 12 Note-cases; 13 Mad Hatter; 17 Scree; 19 Legate; 22 Stems; 23 Land; 24 Slot.

QUICK

Across: 3 Redolence; 8 Rook; 9 Financial; 10 Vessel; 11 Terse; 14 Drive; 15 Spur; 16 Scarf; 18 Nous; 20 Emend; 21 Sense; 24 Fluent; 25 Penurious; 26 Lair; 27 Powerless;

Down: 1 Provident; 2 Conscious; 4 Evil; 5 Orate; 6 Excess; 7 Char; 9 Fetes; 11 Trade; 12 Ephemeral; 13 Predatory; 17 Feels; 19 Secure; 22 Still; 23 Zero; 24 Fuss.