Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

6. Making a noise in South London (7)

7. Wrest out and scatter (5)

9. Fashion nurse gets right into (5)

10. Rushing away from Oxford University for a stimulus (7)

12. Emma's squire organised a service (7,4)

14. Barristers order cab in London arts centre (3,8)

18. Making a noise in East London (7)

19. Sight, for example, various points (5)

21. Handle an eccentric (5)

22. Keep company with Philip (7)

Down

1. Oil spillage concerning the French river (5)

2. The attitude of a man going to church (6)

3. Let off a gun at the animal (3)

4. Tears shed for the leading man flow (6)

5. Repel us somehow (7)

8. Measures one leaves to endanger (7)

11. Dog torn apart by the tide (7)

13. Performance there at the Globe, perhaps (7)

15. Graduate uses a ruler for the cooking (6)

16. Opposed to a poem (6)

17. America takes class line on money-lending (5)

20. Low cry (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

6. Lasting (7)

7. Reason (5)

9. Cloudy (5)

10. Newness (7)

12. In pieces (11)

14. Computation (11)

18. Attribute (7)

19. Sprite (5)

21. Monstrosity (5)

22. Restrain (7)

Down

1. Vegetable mould (5)

2. Crave (6)

3. Work with (3)

4. Pester (6)

5. Image (7)

8. Penury (7)

11. Nimbleness (7)

13. Month (7)

15. Vault (6)

16. Birth (6)

17. Bright (5)

20. Tavern (3)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Manicurist; 7 Order; 8 Another; 10 Passages; 11 Plus; 13 Reeled; 15 Barred; 17 Tube; 18 Magician; 21 Railmen; 22 Niece; 23 Detachment

Down: 1 Modes; 2 Narrates; 3 Cranes; 4 Rook; 5 Scholar; 6 Co-operator; 9 Residences; 12 Patience; 14 Ebb-tide; 16 Paunch; 19 Inert; 20 Emma

QUICK

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Across: 1 Breathless; 7 Naive; 8 Eternal; 10 Hesitate; 11 Heat; 13 Call up; 15 Reject; 17 Away; 18 Sediment; 21 Respond; 22 Let in; 23 On the way up.

Down:1 Bliss; 2 Eventful; 3 Treaty; 4 Leek; 5 Sincere; 6 In the chair; 9 Let it stand; 12 Genially; 14 Liaison; 16 Meadow; 19 Eat up; 20 Cosh.

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