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. Coiled up and became submissive (6)

4. Man gets on a plane to find what's thrown overboard (6)

9. Had Don really gone out to conceal victory here? (7,6)

10. Creatures sometimes on a snooker table (7)

11. One in the broken tier is angry (5)

12. Stone and silver tea-service (5)

14. Enid's becoming bogus (5)

18. There's new anaesthetic (5)

19. Here is a gift (7)

21. As a pert prince might cover a floor (7,6)

22. Doctors taking in whisky and domestic appliances (6)

23. Loves to have a party at the house (6)

Down

1. Compulsion sure to be changed in extreme darkness (6)

2. This could make it a trifle alcoholic (7,6)

3. How Freemasons might make a complaint? (5)

5. Great joy of having a broken toenail (7)

6. Pat lends paper out in pots (4,3,6)

7. Month he gets a lot of violent destruction (6)

8. Graduate takes student to South Africa to find wood (5)

13. Make a mistake with row about a dog (7)

15. Assisted and held a record back inside (6)

16. Pines in order to get a bone (5)

17. Says what the conditions are (6)

20. Overladen animal (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Box up (6)

4. Attack (6)

9. Facing defiantly (13)

10. Avert (7)

11. Custom (5)

12. Dot (5)

14. Stop (5)

18. Once more (5)

19. Messenger (7)

21. Pugilism (5-8)

22. Quick (6)

23. Jail (6)

Down

1. Get away (6)

2. Thoughtful (13)

3. Attend (5)

5. Law (7)

6. Exuberance (6,7)

7. Tarry (6)

8. Oneness (5)

13. Struggle (7)

15. University grounds (6)

16. Pungent (5)

17. Beginning (6)

20. Doorkeeper (5)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 4 Cripple; 8 Haring; 9 Incense; 10 Remark; 11 Leader; 12 Escapade; 18 Passover; 20 Forage; 21 Course; 22 Wassail; 23 Air-gun; 24 Heydays.

Down: 1 Charred; 2 Grimace; 3 Entrap; 5 Ringlets; 6 Pieman; 7 Lashes; 13 Asperity; 14 Average; 15 Orleans; 16 Solace; 17 Raised; 19 Stolid.

QUICK

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Across: 4 Predict; 8 Alight; 9 Sticker; 10 Ration; 11 Chosen; 12 Enkindle; 18 Saturate; 20 Reject; 21 Remain; 22 Contain; 23 Regain; 24 Beneath.

Down: 1 Barrier; 2 Mistake; 3 Thrown; 5 Reticent; 6 Doctor; 7 Clever; 13 District; 14 Far away; 15 Pennant; 16 Devote; 17 Gentle; 19 Uneven.

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