Double Crossword

Today...

Cryptic puzzle

Across

7. They contain water from the Weser (5)

8. Not understanding how a failing business is run (2,1,4)

9. Refuse to accommodate a carriage and horses (4-3)

10. Provide acceptable courses (5)

12. Object about Rosie somehow getting abstract ideas (10)

15. A local community payment (10)

18. Conservative member to attain a higher position (5)

19. He goes in search of a scrubbing-brush (7)

21. Foreign currency is for the founder of an order (7)

22. Nautical measures produce entanglements (5)

Down

1. Provide suitable notes for the script (3,2,5)

2. Kind of green variety (5)

3. Initially offering some lucrative openings for capital (4)

4. Various actors pre-eminent in Cuba (6)

5. Authorise restrictive economic measure (8)

6. Somehow I cannot keep in check (7)

11. Correct uniform for military command (5,5)

13. Check one's progress, as the man with lumbago may do (4,4)

14. Showing no emotion when a colt is nobbled (7)

16. Is to think about ill-treatment (6)

17. First copy the evidence (5)

20. A classic collection of trees (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

7. Frequently (5)

8. Aerodrome (7)

9. Earnest (7)

10. Presage (5)

12. Dumb (10)

15. Stubborn (10)

18. Upright (5)

19. Interpret (7)

21. Plaintiff (7)

22. Lucifer (5)

Down

1. Links (4,6)

2. Sheer (5)

3. Formerly (4)

4. Fight (6)

5. Respite (8)

6. Interwoven (7)

11. Emphatic (10)

13. Rehearse (8)

14. Crime (7)

16. Hypothesis (6)

17. Cite (5)

20. Shove (4)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

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Across: 1 Starboard; 8 Ice; 9 Uprightness; 11 Visitor; 12 Sabre; 13 Resume; 15 Bridge; 17 Amiss; 18 Ancient; 20 Accumulator; 22 Let; 23 Lyric poet.

Down: 2 Tip; 3 Bigot; 4 Afters; 5 Dresser; 6 Disobedient; 7 Represent; 10 Resuscitate; 11 Versatile; 14 Musical; 16 Farmer; 19 Colic; 21 Owe.

QUICK

Across: 1 Maelstrom; 8 All; 9 Provisional; 11 Intense; 12 Revue; 13 Detest; 15 Shelve; 17 Mania; 18 Tidings; 20 Improvident; 22 Tan; 23 Negotiate.

Down: 2 Air; 3 Scion; 4 Raised; 5 Monarch; 6 Malevolence; 7 Blameless; 10 Outstanding; 11 Indemnity; 14 Sharpen; 16 Strong; 19 Drift; 21 Nut.