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 13th Apr 2010, 10:48 BST
Updated 13th Apr 2010, 11:42 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1 And 21 Across. Caledonian Films making "Highland Trips" (8,5)

5. A detective force revealing destructive chemical (4)

9. Nudge softly with a stick (4)

10. Leaves the lecturers following a veto (8)

11 And 13 Down. Are the decoys sitting birds? (5-7)

12. He's not in favour of work with a model (7)

13. Introduced the members and saluted (9,4)

18. What emigrants do – leave with a sailor, by the way! (2,6)

19. This automatically works for the better (4)

20. One who's able to improve your looks (7)

21. See 1 Across

22. Palindromic ecclesiastical divisions (4)

23. In the convent it shows preference (8)

Down

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2. He looks after the place from which the car tour is arranged (7)

3. Boring outside is different (7)

4. Not the main one tendering for underwater craft? (13)

6. No beggar, presumably (7)

7. Leaves the fruit courses, we hear (7)

8. Shot at the bird near the back of the pond (6)

13. See 11 Across

14. Deletion certain to be seen after a long time (7)

15. I wager this could be an unpleasant flatterer (6)

16. A colonist has to tolerate the aardvark (3-4)

17. Seaman with a friend and many more (7)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Peril (8)

5. Competent (4)

9. Wan (4)

10. Exact (8)

11. Stiff (5)

12. Certificate (7)

13. At first glance (2,3,4,2,2)

18. Ultimate (8)

19. Jealousy (4)

20. Curtail (7)

21. Wireless (5)

22. Cupid (4)

23. Furtive (8)

Down

2. Avoidance (7)

3. Irritable (7)

4. Reject (6,7)

6. Repel (4,3)

7. Refined (7)

8. Crease (6)

13. Supervise (7)

14. Vibrato (7)

15. Being (6)

16. Total (7)

17. Rail (7)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Measly; 4 Spades; 9 Social evening; 10 Rosette; 11 Edict; 12 Adder; 14 Stage; 18 Wrest; 19 Macbeth; 21 Distant cousin; 22 Sanity; 23 Trendy.

Down: 1 Misery; 2 Accused person; 3 Least; 5 Present; 6 Driving lesson; 7 Sights; 8 Seven; 13 Extract; 15 Swedes; 16 Amity; 17 Phoney; 20 Choir.

QUICK

Across: 1 Braise; 4 Smites; 9 Supplementary; 10 Dwindle; 11 Token; 12 Pivot; 14 Greed; 18 Exact; 19 Incisor; 21 Imitativeness; 22 Tender; 23 Unison.

Down: 1 Beside; 2 Amplification; 3 Solid; 5 Monster; 6 Thanklessness; 7 Saying; 8 Impel; 13 Outrage; 15 Resist; 16 Timid; 17 Prison; 20 Clean.