Double Crossword
Cryptic puzzle
Across
1. A bounder will get knocked about in this sport (4-4)
5. Outstanding piece of plum pudding! (4)
9. Grumble about the meat (4)
10. Just what will make a man hate inordinately (8)
11. Partisan to leave in a little while (5)
12. They give loud warning of owls (7)
13. Describing one who personally owns up? (4-9)
18. It's a turn involving one in the nudist colony (8)
19. See 4 Down
20. Maybe I retain a passive state (7)
21. See 4 Down
22. Lend a poetic ear to the inventory (4)
23. Being abusive and wicked in a telephone call (8)
Down
2. The girl to write a postscript, we hear! (7)
3. Start of space flight when the elevator is not working? (4-3)
4. 21 Across and 19 Across. How many workers does it take to change a lightbulb? (4,5,4,5,4)
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Hide Ad6. It's answering no good purpose to employ a smaller number (7)
7. Among various padres, I will be commended (7)
8. Campaigned valiantly to convert the voters (6)
13. On which the shades of time are cast (7)
14. More than one lot of pups makes the place untidy (7)
15. Young serviceman could make a truce (6)
16. Noticed the cotton factory has become a timber-yard (3-4)
17. Sound attachment at that time made of clay (7)
Quick puzzle
Across
1. Speed (8)
5. Period of time (4)
9. Competent (4)
10. Deep (8)
11. Stream (5)
12. Raise (7)
13. Absurdity (13)
18. Increasing (8)
19. Intend (4)
20. Transporter (7)
21. Mature (5)
22. Howl (4)
23. Intercessor (8)
Down
2. Ban (7)
3. Burdensome (7)
4. Triangular (5-8)
6. Train (7)
7. Remedy (7)
8. Tenders (6)
13. Imitation (7)
14. Impartial (7)
15. Delicacy (6)
16. Wandering (7)
17. Red (7)
Monday's solutions
CRYPTIC
Across: 1 Safety; 4 Keeper; 9 Agriculturist; 10 Courses; 11 Inter; 12 Neigh; 14 Verne; 18 Reeve; 19 Crampon; 21 Self-abasement; 22 Turned; 23 Passed.
Down: 1 Snatch; 2 Fortune-teller; 3 Tacks; 5 Elusive; 6 Printing-press; 7 Retort; 8 Close; 13 Grenade; 15 Prosit; 16 Scrap; 17 United; 20 Arena.
QUICK
Across: 1 Fodder; 4 Danced; 9 Inspirational; 10 Supreme; 11 Arced; 12 Tempt; 14 Sewer; 18 Borne; 19 Bluster; 21 Contradictory; 22 Sleuth; 23 Erased.
Down: 1 Flimsy; 2 Disappearance; 3 Elite; 5 Agitate; 6 Conscientious; 7 Delude; 8 Dazed; 13 Pierrot; 15 Abacus; 16 Abide; 17 Frayed; 20 Ulcer.