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 26th May 2010, 10:52 BST
Updated 26th May 2010, 11:48 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Amusing tennis-player? (5,6)

9. Nothing in the sailing ship is architecturally flamboyant (7)

10. Turkish potentate elected a second time (5)

11. It's exorbitant – shouldn't be paid yet (5)

12. The product of a biblical man of letters (7)

13. Moral justice to which actors pay allegiance (6)

15. Synopsis that's not quite exact (6)

18. Apprehensive of this kind of system (7)

20. Discourage some of the worldwide terrorism (5)

22. Folk literature about one French flower (5)

23. Fruit from the mountains near the end of the Orinoco (7)

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24. Leave with the fellows by back-street for French regions (11)

Down

2. The sort of craft propelled by manpower (5)

3. A plea that could end up in Queer St.? (7)

4. Butler with a novel reputation (6)

5. North African horseman causing a ship-wreck (5)

6. One discovered in the castle ruins likely to get a stretch (7)

7. This causes no acute problem in geometry (6,5)

8. Fail to emphasise what those suffering tension are (5,6)

14. Elevate with universal commendation (7)

16. Communist to record a symbol of bureaucracy (3,4)

17. One who accompanies the colonel among the rest, maybe (6)

19. Literally the last of the Greek characters (5)

21. Needing to relax, having imbibed too freely (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Drunkenness (11)

9. Hazy (7)

10. Harden (5)

11. Sluggish (5)

12. Malady (7)

13. Guarantee (6)

15. Reckless (6)

18. Axle (7)

20. Factory (5)

22. Fire-arm (5)

23. Stipulation (7)

24. Rude (3-8)

Down

2. Illustrious (5)

3. Support (7)

4. Encroachment (6)

5. Whirl (5)

6. Luxurious (7)

7. Celebration (11)

8. Goal (11)

14. Deft (7)

16. Endorse (7)

17. Arm (6)

19. Vision (5)

21. Nimble (5

Tuesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Ball-game; 5 Lump; 9 Beef; 10 Anathema; 11 Bigot; 12 Hooters; 13 Self-confessed; 18 Naturist; 19 Work; 20 Inertia; 21 Light; 22 List; 23 Reviling.

Down: 2 Adeline; 3 Lift-off; 4 Many hands make; 6 Useless; 7 Praised; 8 Strove; 13 Sundial; 14 Litters; 15 Curate; 16 Saw-mill; 17 Earthen.

QUICK

Across: 1 Velocity; 5 Year; 9 Able; 10 Profound; 11 Brook; 12 Elevate; 13 Monstrousness; 18 Mounting; 19 Mean; 20 Carrier; 21 Adult; 22 Yell; 23 Advocate.

Down: 2 Embargo; 3 Onerous; 4 Three-cornered; 6 Educate; 7 Redress; 8 Offers; 13 Mimicry; 14 Neutral; 15 Titbit; 16 Nomadic; 17 Scarlet.