Double Crossword
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.
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Hide AdAcross: 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.