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 1st Jun 2010, 10:43 BST
Updated 1st Jun 2010, 11:58 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Boisterous female to treat man badly about the beginning of the game (9)

8. A politician producing a current measure (3)

9. No dieting is required for dyspepsia (11)

11. Heeds the sound of 51 guns (7)

12. Not expressed by one encompassed by discretion (5)

13. See 15 Across

15 And 13 Across. This enables one to cross without being seen (6,6)

17. Because a television is something worth having (5)

18. He makes a charge (7)

20. Returned to one's original state (11)

22. It is put back among the cards (3)

23. Somehow estranges those who get the stripes (9)

Down

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2. For a long time the leading characters of every overseas nation (3)

3. Fish measured to some degree (5)

4. Help a vessel before it's wrecked (6)

5. A prickly object taken from the list (7)

6. Group of implements used for handwork (8,3)

7. Protects a witness, in a way (9)

10. Essential parts of the Book of Revelation? (11)

11. One qualified in book-keeping (9)

14. Take a month over the composition The Sea Monster (7)

16. Get the better of a teacher (6)

19. It slopes down to part of the beach in Eastbourne (5)

21. Newt abandoned when decapitated (3)

Quick puzzle

1. Consultation (9)

8. Bind (3)

9. Suspension (11)

11. Unhappiest (7)

12. Giver (5)

13. Revenue (6)

15. Keep (6)

17. Meal (5)

18. Engine (7)

20. Melodramatic (11)

22. Nothing (3)

23. Withdrawn (9)

Down

2. Doze off (3)

3. Course (5)

4. Light (6)

5. Cajole (7)

6. Thinning (11)

7. Allusion (9)

10. Wisely (11)

11. Niggard (9)

14. Sailor (7)

16. Collision (6)

19. Porcelain (5)

21. Mimic (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 All out; 8 Cattle; 10 Stimuli; 11 Safer; 12 Ugly; 13 Venom; 17 Folio; 18 Limb; 22 Maria; 23 Learned; 24 Result; 25 Patron.

Down: 1 Pass out; 2 Plainly; 3 Augur; 4 Bassoon; 5 Staff; 6 Yearn; 9 Minefield; 14 Morally; 15 Signora; 16 Abiding; 19 Smart; 20 Gross; 21 Japan.

QUICK

Across: 7 Limpid; 8 Voyage; 10 Servile; 11 Fling; 12 Envy; 13 Adorn; 17 Batch; 18 Dial; 22 Robot; 23 Nucleus; 24 Drowsy; 25 Tousle.

Down: 1 Fluster; 2 Improve; 3 Vigil; 4 Conform; 5 Panic; 6 Beige; 9 Mendicant; 14 Fantasy; 15 Diverse; 16 Bluster; 19 Pride; 20 Abhor; 21 Actor.