Double Crossword

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Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. On the gunners' trip back up the Italian river (4)

8. Actress had great trouble at the dress circle (5,5)

9. A tart you shouldn't undercook (8)

10. Principal structure (4)

12. Morning examination is unprincipled (6)

14. A bird can't get mixed up in Oxford University (6)

15. Leading boy has strange urges to find a Belgian city (6)

17. Is sent out and becomes established (4,2)

18. As well as in hospital, some believe (4)

19. Ron means to become a Viking (8)

21. Revealing that the dunderhead is not serious (10)

22. More than six balls? (4)

Down

2. Real Madrid's unsettled winger (3,7)

3. Make eyes at with love and a broken leg (4)

4. About to leap up and annul (6)

5. Old rogue has to travel around (6)

6. Water, in part, can kill weeds (8)

7. Many get awfully hot on a flier (4)

11. Generous provision of a new chair and another furniture item (10)

13. Reorganises rug and ropes mixed together (8)

16. Grains a boy gets on a shoe (6)

17. At one point practise for the race (6)

18. The boy plus a youth leader (4)

20. Therefore the giant returns (4)

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Discover (4)

8. Excessive (10)

9. Representative (8)

10. Quarrel (4)

12. Amuse (6)

14. Lease (6)

15. Dialect (6)

17. Boil (6)

18. Withered (4)

19. Likeness (8)

21. Happy (10)

22. Detest (4)

Down

2. Fertilise (10)

3. Ditch (4)

4. Collision (6)

5. Coming (6)

6. Make-believe (8)

7. Slave (4)

11. Outspoken (10)

13. Confidential (8)

16. Putrefying (6)

17. Lecture (6)

18. Sort (4)

20. Reed (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Atoll; 8 Wearing; 9 Kindest; 10 Rigid; 12 In the slips; 15 Bridge hand; 18 Right; 19 Nomadic; 21 Anemone; 22 Lucre.

Down: 1 Back number; 2 Sound; 3 Blue; 4 Switch; 5 Garrison; 6 Kingpin; 11 Disc jockey; 13 Negation; 14 Singlet; 16 Hinder; 17 Edict; 20 Mali.;

QUICK

Across: 7 Agony; 8 Embargo; 9 Entreat; 10 Trait; 12 Reflective; 15 Spectacles; 18 Yearn; 19 Various; 21 Matelot; 22 Caste.

Down: 1 Namelessly; 2 Worth; 3 Lyre; 4 Mental; 5 Obstacle; 6 Erratic; 11 Trespasser; 13 Entangle; 14 Penalty; 16 Cavity; 17 Douse; 20 Race.