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 25th May 2010, 11:02 BST
Updated 25th May 2010, 12:15 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. A bounder will get knocked about in this sport (4-4)

5. Outstanding piece of plum pudding! (4)

9. Grumble about the meat (4)

10. Just what will make a man hate inordinately (8)

11. Partisan to leave in a little while (5)

12. They give loud warning of owls (7)

13. Describing one who personally owns up? (4-9)

18. It's a turn involving one in the nudist colony (8)

19. See 4 Down

20. Maybe I retain a passive state (7)

21. See 4 Down

22. Lend a poetic ear to the inventory (4)

23. Being abusive and wicked in a telephone call (8)

Down

2. The girl to write a postscript, we hear! (7)

3. Start of space flight when the elevator is not working? (4-3)

4. 21 Across and 19 Across. How many workers does it take to change a lightbulb? (4,5,4,5,4)

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6. It's answering no good purpose to employ a smaller number (7)

7. Among various padres, I will be commended (7)

8. Campaigned valiantly to convert the voters (6)

13. On which the shades of time are cast (7)

14. More than one lot of pups makes the place untidy (7)

15. Young serviceman could make a truce (6)

16. Noticed the cotton factory has become a timber-yard (3-4)

17. Sound attachment at that time made of clay (7)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Speed (8)

5. Period of time (4)

9. Competent (4)

10. Deep (8)

11. Stream (5)

12. Raise (7)

13. Absurdity (13)

18. Increasing (8)

19. Intend (4)

20. Transporter (7)

21. Mature (5)

22. Howl (4)

23. Intercessor (8)

Down

2. Ban (7)

3. Burdensome (7)

4. Triangular (5-8)

6. Train (7)

7. Remedy (7)

8. Tenders (6)

13. Imitation (7)

14. Impartial (7)

15. Delicacy (6)

16. Wandering (7)

17. Red (7)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Safety; 4 Keeper; 9 Agriculturist; 10 Courses; 11 Inter; 12 Neigh; 14 Verne; 18 Reeve; 19 Crampon; 21 Self-abasement; 22 Turned; 23 Passed.

Down: 1 Snatch; 2 Fortune-teller; 3 Tacks; 5 Elusive; 6 Printing-press; 7 Retort; 8 Close; 13 Grenade; 15 Prosit; 16 Scrap; 17 United; 20 Arena.

QUICK

Across: 1 Fodder; 4 Danced; 9 Inspirational; 10 Supreme; 11 Arced; 12 Tempt; 14 Sewer; 18 Borne; 19 Bluster; 21 Contradictory; 22 Sleuth; 23 Erased.

Down: 1 Flimsy; 2 Disappearance; 3 Elite; 5 Agitate; 6 Conscientious; 7 Delude; 8 Dazed; 13 Pierrot; 15 Abacus; 16 Abide; 17 Frayed; 20 Ulcer.