Double Crossword

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Feb 2010, 09:02 BST
Updated 2nd Feb 2010, 10:14 BST
Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. About the drama The Second Match (6)

4. Battered and cast off by the company (6)

9. Imaginary journey by air? (6,2,5)

10. The dyer breaks down in tears (7)

11. Creepy stretch of water, by the sound of it (5)

12. Try light meals, we hear (5)

14. Contemplate a piece of music (5)

18. Arterial way in Australia or Tasmania (5)

19. Ask about a search (7)

21. One providing heaven-sent protection (8,5)

22. Giving voice to a proverb (6)

23. Finds fault with old-fashioned school equipment (6)

Down

1. Say no rubbish is to be seen (6)

2. Secret agreement by which property is sold (7,6)

3. Like a bird having a grey appearance (5)

5. Unconventional description of policeman having finished duty (7)

6. The ponderous result of aggregating the four quarters (13)

7. Resting place for a light sleeper? (3-3)

8. See 16 Down

13. Don't sit at home as a stop-gap (5-2)

15. Freely traverses firing locations (6)

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16 & 8Dn. A basis for cutting the directors of the bakery! (5-5)

17. Just the equipment for those who walk tall (6)

20. Game-bird to show apprehension (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Number two (6)

4. Packet (6)

9. Old fogey (5-2-3-3)

10. Everlasting (7)

11. Banishment (5)

12. Boundary (5)

14. Flat (5)

18. Pretend (5)

19. Hopelessness (7)

21. Elimination (13)

22. Ridicule (6)

23.Rough (6)

Down

1. Scatter (6)

2. Premier (5,8)

3. Keepsake (5)

5. Runner (7)

6. Sympathetic (13)

7. Boarder (6)

8. Fish (5)

13. Unheeded (7)

15. Transgress (6)

16. Let in (5)

17. Crevice (6)

20. Shatter (5)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Dig up the past; 7 Begin; 8 Rough; 9 Lax; 10 Forbidden; 11 Nordic; 12 Cleric; 15 Unreality; 17 Cab; 18 Gifts; 19 Strap; 21 General Grant.

Down: 1 Dead language; 2 Pug; 3 Hungry; 4 Partially; 5 Sound; 6 China cabinet; 7 Boxer; 10 Fricassee; 13 Recap; 14 Siesta; 16 Rifle; 20 Rag.

QUICK

Across: 1 Particularly; 7 Check; 8 Swear; 9 Sou; 10 Ownership; 11 Banner; 12 Animus; 15 Liquidate; 17 Use; 18 Thorn; 19 Fight; 21 Carelessness.

Down: 1 Plausibility; 2 Ire; 3 Unkind; 4 Assurance; 5 Leech; 6 Preposterous; 7 Churn; 10 Obedience; 13 Mount; 14 Baffle; 16 Quota; 20 Gas.