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 30th Jun 2010, 11:03 BST
Updated 30th Jun 2010, 12:00 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Free transport arranged by rule of thumb? (4)

3. Jeers at soldiers' quarters (8)

9. Dishonest violinist? (7)

10. Cram with material (5)

11. Two languages used in furniture-making (6,6)

13. Ring to point out choice (6)

15. Bird will thus return to hunt for food (6)

17. Doubtful as net oblique, possibly (12)

20. Raced to form Communist group (5)

21. Remove the perfume on the way down? (7)

22. Put on the rubbish dump, having fought (8)

23. Ruler having some miraculous power (4)

Down

1. Withdrew twelve inches at the beginning of March (4,4)

2. Clumsily make sweetmeat (5)

4. Sudden rap but different (6)

5. Maybe lessen stress in uneasiness (12)

6. Warhorse cures, or is destroyed (7)

7. Subdued in matters of taste (4)

8. Wool-gathering? (5,2,5)

12. Belt and tyre misdirected in the post (2,6)

14. Rumble of trains in the fourth underground station (7)

16. Half-way point is divine in distance race! (6)

18. Disturbed amber fish (5)

19. They are the ones in suits (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Get rid of (4)

3. Beloved (8)

9. Exclude (4,3)

10. Collier (5)

11. Diligence (12)

13. Deserved (6)

15. Verse (6)

17. Dedication (12)

20. Over (5)

21. Very old (7)

22. Ceased (8)

23. Scourge (4)

Down

1. Calamity (8)

2. Hillock (5)

4. Deviation (6)

5. Protestation (12)

6. Blessing (7)

7. Listeners (4)

8. Inhumanity (12)

12. Chief prop (8)

14. Disorderly (7)

16. Abrade (6)

18. Perfect (5)

19. Was profitable (4)

Tuesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 6 Regards; 7 Grain; 9 Party; 10 Precise; 12 Inoffensive; 14 Desperation; 18 Ireland; 19 Style; 21 Board; 22 Quarter.

Down: 1 Relax; 2 Carton; 3 Odd; 4 Bricks; 5 Missive; 8 Cruelty; 11 Affront; 13 Gearbox; 15 Paltry; 16 Outcry; 17 Alien; 20 Rum.

QUICK

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Across: 6 Flatten; 7 Revel; 9 Topic; 10 Ungodly; 12 Requirement; 14 Premonition; 18 Portent; 19 Steer; 21 Reply; 22 Comical.

Down: 1 Allow; 2 Strike; 3 Pen; 4 Reform; 5 Decline; 8 Untruth; 11 Turning; 13 Crooked; 15 Mettle; 16 Obtain; 17 Debar; 20 Top.