Double Crossword

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

Cryptic puzzle

Across

7. They do wind Leo up, being extreme and unchangeable (4-2-3-4)

8. Trough causing deep trouble in the ship (5-3)

9. She's a gem (4)

10. Alter the control (6)

12. Don't give in to an awful sister (6)

14. A new storey built for a mollusc (6)

16. Pleasantly back in and around a cathedral city (6)

18. Just a travelling entertainment (4)

20. The completeness of eternity, possibly (8)

22. Stick with the secretaries and clerical workers? (5,2,6)

Down

1. Incidentally, it's on the pavement (2,3,3)

2. Commercial trade is disrupted without victory (6)

3. She has to eat up (4)

4. A woman from Cape Horn? (8)

5. Weapons used in crossword-solving? (6)

6. It's a blunder, either way you look at it (4)

11. Container for jade, perhaps (8)

13. Closet is tidied up for the 21st of December (8)

15. A split at Tottenham Hotspur concerning money-management (6)

17. A bottle for the artist in the snack-bar (6)

19. Singer featured in some of Walton's works (4)

21. Implement the return of the swag (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

7. Continuous (13)

8. Beaten (8)

9. Sole (4)

10. Small (6)

12. Chatter (6)

14. Extol (6)

16. Foliage (6)

18. Prevent (4)

20. Attractive (8)

22. Forecast (13)

Down

1. Subordinate (8)

2. Disturbance (6)

3. Joke (4)

4. Wasteful (8)

5. Self-possession (6)

6. Thoroughly (4)

11. Building (8)

13. Timelessness (8)

15. Contradict (6)

17. Assault (6)

19. Sour (4)

21. Legend (4)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Shop; 8 Love letter; 9 Virginia; 10 Arab; 12 Poodle; 14 Stifle; 15 Steven; 17 Mugabe; 18 Brat; 19 Ironside; 21 Refinement; 22 To-do.

Down: 2 Helicopter; 3 Plug; 4 Avenue; 5 Pleats; 6 Straying; 7 Grub; 11 Able-bodied; 13 Dovetail; 16 Nailed; 17 Moored; 18 Bird; 20 Sett.

QUICK

Across: 1 Waif; 8 Appetising; 9 Braggart; 10 Rude; 12 Aviate; 14 Candle; 15 Parcel; 17 Sleigh; 18 Less; 19 Separate; 21 Incoherent; 22 Hell.

Down: 2 Abbreviate; 3 Fang; 4 Update; 5 Static; 6 Estrange; 7 Ogre; 11 Delightful; 13 Ancestor; 16 Listen; 17 Supper; 18 Lair; 20 Ruth.

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