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 15th Feb 2010, 09:21 BST
Updated 15th Feb 2010, 09:58 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

6. Give place to construct a road (4,3)

7. The result of some addition to endless conversation (5)

9 and 3 Down. Fail to hold lease before autumn (3,4)

10. Take it in turns to change neat arrangement (9)

12. After a meal he is concerned with someone's health (11)

15. Intruder ruins the car gears (11)

17. Lead spray could make one incapacitated (9)

19. See 2 Down

21. Destined, we hear, to be received in triumph (5)

22. Criminal gets in at the back of the house (7)

Down

1. Fed up when there's a mix-up in the dates (5)

2 and 19 Across. For divers, the main place to retire to? (3-3)

3. See 9 Across

4. Golfers, boxers or delivery operators (9)

5. As men on the board, they should be impregnable (7)

8. Olympian herald seen among other messengers (6)

11. Scoresheet? (9)

13. Uses a rose for clusters of flowers (6)

14. Stripped in variety act for intimate entertainment (7)

16. Aimed to transform means of communication (5)

18. Reverse the current trend to do press-work (4)

20. Some of the frail limbs requiring medical attention (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

6. Eradication (7)

7. Backhander (5)

9. Objective (3)

10. Profitable (9)

12. Blending (11)

15. Acknowledgement (11)

17. Abatement (9)

19. Pale (3)

21. Dodge (5)

22. Train (7)

Down

1. Send (5)

2. Gladness (3)

3. Temple (4)

4. Learning (9)

5. Forsake (7)

8. Is unable (6)

11. Narcotic (9)

13. Exile (6)

14. Merit (7)

16. Worth (5)

18. Frank (4)

20. Compete (3)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Garb; 8 Retraction; 9 Relegate; 10 Road; 12 Edited; 14 Pliers; 15 Indeed; 17 Pigeon; 18 Reap; 19 Veracity; 21 Close shave; 22 Fast.

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Down: 2 Attendance; 3 Brie; 4 Strand; 5 Made up; 6 Starling; 7 Enid; 11 Air hostess; 13 Trespass; 16 Divest; 17 Pariah; 18 Rock; 20 Chef.

QUICK

Across: 1 Land; 8 Reasonable; 9 Displace; 10 Trap; 12 Crease; 14 Threat; 15 Stupor; 17 Rustic; 18 Brat; 19 Complain; 21 Restricted; 22 Oust.

Down: 2 Arbitrator; 3 Drop; 4 Savage; 5 Potent; 6 Raptures; 7 Keep; 11 Avaricious; 13 Appetite; 16 Recoil; 17 Remote; 18 Bore; 20 Lido.