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 3rd Feb 2010, 08:59 BST
Updated 3rd Feb 2010, 09:41 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Book a drab hack has written out (8)

5. The princess's copyright on a record (4)

9. One having a go at a part in Othello (4)

10. Only a lock gives support (8)

11. Canine creature in dog show (5)

12. Anne got confused by the ship's capacity (7)

13. Can a new theatre be badly affected by the elements? (7-6)

18. Devices getting hot initially in new cinemas (8)

19. Castle bird (4)

20. Closest to getting the Greek war god in the mesh (7)

21. Shiny material didn't stand out! (5)

22. Vegetables that are small after the month is over (4)

23. Training to do a boring job (8)

Down

2. Greed of girl taking food (7)

3. The doctor should attend to a lack of water (7)

4. His notes are copied (13)

6. Imprecise in former part of play (7)

7. Storage tank cretins redesigned (7)

8. Posture of a man at church (6)

13. Feminine amendment made on my law (7)

14. Show approval of an assertion made by Bill (7)

15. Greeted Delia returning after the end of the month (6)

16. High-up post? (7)

17. Feeling the number one book is back to front (7)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Conjuror (8)

5. Cab (4)

9. Impetuous (4)

10. Dusk (8)

11. Foe (5)

12. Jerking (7)

13. Show unity (5,8)

18. Exemption (8)

19. Notion (4)

20. Ancestry (7)

21. Amidst (5)

22. Channel (4)

23. Escape gap (8)

Down

2. Opposed (7)

3. Brutal (7)

4. Never still (6,2,3,2)

6. Pain (7)

7. Whole number (7)

8. Dive (6)

13. Suppressed (7)

14. Calendar (7)

15. Negation (6)

16. Victory (7)

17. Everlasting (7)

Tuesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Replay; 4 Coshed; 9 Flight of fancy; 10 Stainer; 11 Eerie; 12 Tease; 14 Study; 18 Aorta; 19 Request; 21 Guardian angel; 22 Saying; 23 Slates.

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Down: 1 Refuse; 2 Private treaty; 3 Ashen; 5 Offbeat; 6 Hundredweight; 7 Day-bed; 8 Board; 13 Stand-in; 15 Ranges; 16 Bread; 17 Stilts; 20 Quail.

QUICK

Across: 1 Deputy; 4 Parcel; 9 Stick-in-the-mud; 10 Eternal; 11 Exile; 12 Limit; 14 Level; 18 Feign; 19 Despair; 21 Extermination; 22 Deride; 23 Shaggy.

Down: 1 Dispel; 2 Prime minister; 3 Token; 5 Athlete; 6 Commiserating; 7 Lodger; 8 Angle; 13 Ignored; 15 Offend; 16 Admit; 17 Cranny; 20 Smash.