Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Are they performed by grafting doctors? (11)

9. Young animal always allowed out (7)

10. He works on the pitch with a fork (5)

11. Concise translation of trees (5)

12. A domestic row? (7)

13. Attempts compositions (6)

15. Carriage seen in Brazil and Australia (6)

18. Not prosaic? Just the opposite! (7)

20. Performing dingo perhaps (5)

22. Reel round in circles (5)

23. Remix album and leave with a back complaint (7)

24. Money – 500 – for one not using sense (5,6)

Down

2. Right to have finished with a traveller (5)

3. Where you may find the blooming children? (7)

4. It can be chipped, but not broken (6)

5. Moving stair perhaps (5)

6. Vessel or military vehicle on a road (7)

7. Unaccommodating rejections? (4,7)

8. One in charge of branch operations? (4,7)

14. Various forms of redeemer (7)

16. Terribly bad sign for the belly (7)

17. Wrongly blamed for state of uproar (6)

19. Flowers for the girls (5)

21. Silly Annie is going out (5)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Unlikely (11)

9. Sailor (7)

10. Bordered (5)

11. Limerick (5)

12. Set off (7)

13. Yawning (6)

15. Base (6)

18. Tumbler (7)

20. Point of convergence (5)

22. Lax (5)

23. Feeling (7)

24. Harmful (11)

Down

2. Wed (5)

3. Lamp (7)

4. Turmoil (6)

5. Creek (5)

6. Ancestry (7)

7. Unassailable (11)

8. Publicity (11)

14. Aim (7)

16. Jester (7)

17. Current (6)

19. Dim (5)

21. Porcelain (5)

Wednesday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Cenotaph; 5 Good; 9 Spot; 10 Scrapers; 11 On tow; 12 Over-age; 13 Left at the post; 18 Turn tail; 19 Ahoy; 20 Tel Aviv; 21 Looks; 22 Sign; 23 Escapade.

Down: 2 Expense; 3 Outpost; 4 Pack of thieves; 6 Oregano; 7 Dissent; 8 Manege; 13 Litotes; 14 Foreleg; 15 Active; 16 Pea-soup; 17 Shocked.

QUICK

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Across: 1 Sanction; 5 Ache; 9 Fret; 10 Strainer; 11 Mimic; 12 Portent; 13 United Kingdom; 18 Building; 19 Item; 20 Agitate; 21 Stray; 22 Dale; 23 Assorted.

Down: 2 Arraign; 3 Catmint; 4 Outspokenness; 6 Contend; 7 Erratum; 8 Barren; 13 Upbraid; 14 Initial; 15 Endear; 16 Glitter; 17 Operate.

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