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 8th Jan 2010, 09:00 BST
Updated 8th Jan 2010, 10:25 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Fledgling's covering in lower part (4)

3. Do things separately perhaps to behave hypocritically (3,1,4)

8. Border on which one is nervy (4)

9. Thorough training in hole-making? (8)

11. Reap dividends from concern about lottery result? (4,8)

13. Elation felt when in a rising elevator (6)

14. Unethical when spoken in the morning (6)

17. Rather poor finish causing much sorrow (5-7)

20. Narratives found in the books (8)

21. Money-making herb (4)

22. Rib Beryl about fruit (8)

23. Five-hundred years old? That's very old! (4)

Down

1. Doctor finds feudal system terrible (8)

2. Happy dog? No, a bird (7)

4. Dog made a meal of parson (6)

5. Temptation for everybody to find false men true (10)

6. A girl gone wrong (5)

7. Clothes from heads of the old German states (4)

10. M represents melody? Bad luck (10)

12. Shattered lamp in bed (8)

15. Abuse of part of fence (7)

16. Author sounds more correct (6)

18. Slippery customer, about 90, will do better than most (5)

19. Young animal devoted to essayist (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Blockhead (4)

3. Changeless (8)

8. Dispatched (4)

9. Evade (8)

11. Preliminary (12)

13. Get away (6)

14. Clever (6)

17. Revival (12)

20. Unpalatable (8)

21. Thought (4)

22. Blow up (8)

23. Raised (4)

Down

1. Scorned (8)

2. Madman (7)

4. Hateful (6)

5. Very loud (10)

6. Change (5)

7. Kind (4)

10. Finishing (10)

12. Model (8)

15. Molar (7)

16. Small ball (6)

18. Expel (5)

19. Untamed (4)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC

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Across: 1 Transplants; 9 Leveret; 10 Tuner; 11 Terse; 12 Terrace; 13 Essays; 15 Landau; 18 Inverse; 20 Doing; 22 Loops; 23 Lumbago; 24 Brass monkey.

Down: 2 Rover; 3 Nursery; 4 Potato; 5 Astir; 6 Tankard; 7 Flat denials; 8 Tree surgeon; 14 Saviour; 16 Abdomen; 17 Bedlam; 19 Roses; 21 Inane.

QUICK

Across: 1 Implausible; 9 Mariner; 10 Lined; 11 Rhyme; 12 Actuate; 13 Gaping; 15 Abject; 18 Acrobat; 20 Focus; 22 Loose; 23 Emotion; 24 Detrimental.

Down: 2 Marry; 3 Lantern; 4 Uproar; 5 Inlet; 6 Lineage; 7 Impregnable; 8 Advertising; 14 Purpose; 16 Buffoon; 17 Stream; 19 Blear; 21 China.