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 15th Jun 2010, 10:44 BST
Updated 15th Jun 2010, 11:54 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Convince possibly Red Sea up (8)

5. A long time initially always gets everybody settled (4)

9. Stone taken from ring given to friend (4)

10. About 50 wrongly accused in blind alley (3,2,3)

11. Be author of western ceremony (5)

12. Sketch slippery customer returning to sheltered side (7)

13. Comical points cause entanglements (13)

18. Offering impossible for teetotallers? (8)

19. Presumably the boss has one! (4)

20. Nothing less about nothing? It's inauspicious (7)

21. Some Carib sentiment expressed by playwright (5)

22. Write one's name in the designated place (4)

23. Sameness of tiny diet (8)

Down

2. Grass from a poster (7)

3. Put lips thus to separate (5,2)

4. Betrayed as look-alike went over to the other side (6-7)

6. Postage for secret police (7)

7. Wise half yields and formally withdraws (7)

8. Arrival of van Ted crashed (6)

13. Hardened to everything in the company going to America (7)

14. Crowding wildly round gin spilt by exploding bomb (7)

15. Liquid preparation applied to lion (6)

16. Live there, wearing distinctive clothing (7)

17. Set earn maybe the closest one (7)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Malicious (8)

5. Stalk (4)

9. Leap (4)

10. Gallows (8)

11. Devastation (5)

12. Harmful (7)

13. Sensitivity (13)

18. Announce (8)

19. Isthmus (4)

20. Obsolete (7)

21. Sober (5)

22. Run (4)

23. Frivolous (8)

Down

2. Feathers (7)

3. Excellent (3-4)

4. Absolute (13)

6. Pair (7)

7. Lunacy (7)

8. Bureau (6)

13. Censure (7)

14. Chuckle (7)

15. Wanness (6)

16. Ceaseless (3-4)

17. Part (7)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

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Across: 1 Pusher; 4 Emigre; 9 Spanish Armada; 10 Retract; 11 Tomes; 12 Units; 14 Adore; 18 Lapse; 19 Coracle; 21 United Nations; 22 Svelte; 23 Collie.

Down: 1 Pastry; 2 Starting price; 3 Erica; 5 Merited; 6 Grammar school; 7 Elapse; 8 Chute; 13 Thereat; 15 Clouds; 16 Scent; 17 Bessie; 20 Ratio

QUICK – Across: 1 Climax; 4 Proper; 9 Apportionment; 10 Strange; 11 Whole; 12 Rural; 14 Close; 18 Robes; 19 Artiste; 21 Subordination; 22 Yields; 23 Shaggy.Down: 1 Coarse; 2 Imperturbable; 3 Apron; 5 Renewal; 6 Prepossessing; 7 Rather; 8 Rider; 13 Assured; 15 Trusty; 16 Magic; 17 Keenly; 20 Trash