Double Crossword

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

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Six going to South Africa will need this (4)

8. Vehicle necessary for transferring property (10)

9. Barker could become first-class leader (8)

10. Kind of perch for a singer (4)

12. Part of the capital where services are held (6)

14. Manage to get firmly fixed (6)

15. Produces motives for us to appear in unusual case (6)

17. Is able to take off a cocktail savoury (6)

18. Speculate about a copper's course (4)

19. Tom Shore has become more refined (8)

21. The sort of expert to bring the house down (10)

22. Recommended courses for Parliament (4)

Down

2. I will repeat a description of the uneducated man (10)

3. Some of the teachers suffer discomfort (4)

4. Do some boxing! (6)

5. Takes great delight in films about Victoria's capital (6)

6. With a sharp point I am able to provide some defence (8)

7. They are caught in steel snares (4)

11. See it's part of a change in cabaret act (5-5)

13. So I point to a different place (8)

16. Kind of finch the first of the swallows is related to (6)

17. He produced nocturnes with phonic variation (6)

18. Places to which people retire may be full of flowers (4)

20. Be inclined to do some nursing (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Curve (4)

8. Bizarre (10)

9. Tirade (8)

10. Profess (4)

12. Horrified (6)

14. Wealth (6)

15. Smutty (6)

17. Deadly (6)

18. Stylish (4)

19. Sinner (8)

21. Imprudent (10)

22. Too (4)

Down

2. Put out (10)

3. Nincompoop (4)

4. Rigid (6)

5. Compose (4,2)

6. Contiguous (8)

7. Exhibit (4)

11. Heinous (10)

13. Lawless (8)

16. Soak (6)

17. Dawdle (6)

18. Shear (4)

20. Facts (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 7 Hyena; 8 Freight; 9 At issue; 10 Olive; 12 Maleficent; 15 Flat racing; 18 Nylon; 19 Inferno; 21 Cholera; 22 Stake.

Down: 1 Theatre fan; 2 Set in; 3 Pass; 4 Effete; 5 Demotion; 6 Ignited; 11 Extra cover; 13 Arranged; 14 Call-box; 16 Climax; 17 Break; 20 Fast.

QUICK

Across: 7 Alert; 8 Emerald; 9 Tremble; 10 Track; 12 Protective; 15 In name only; 18 Found; 19 Freedom; 21 Assuage; 22 Shorn.

Down: 1 Past belief; 2 Refer; 3 Stub; 4 Defect; 5 Vertical; 6 Satanic; 11 Keep in mind; 13 Remedial; 14 Anguish; 16 Offset; 17 Idiot; 20 Easy.