Cryptic puzzle
Across
1. Thoughtless advice to those who are over-worried (8)
5. Customs applications (4)
9. It's sung in variations (4)
10. Many a creature seen in a wood (8)
11. Sharp crooked instruments (5)
12. A heavenly intervention? (7)
13. If they work, they help the rest (8,5)
18. Surprise shots in a melee (8)
19. Where those for the ferry were always late (4)
20. Such twins were once inseparable (7)
21. S. American flower's variegated petal (5)
22. Stake for river craft (4)
23. Moneylender's overtures? (8)
Down
2. A high post? (3-4)
3. Model, formerly fat? (7)
4. Give no indication (5,4,4)
6. Knife that is a brave trophy to the Spanish (7)
7. It's shown by a person who's retiring (7)
8. Put away the chart and attend (4,2)
13. Puts off one's retirement (5,2)
14. Board transport in a violent rainstorm (7)
15. Written in captivity (6)
16. Specifically used by diabetics (7)
17. Worn in early life yet late perhaps (7)
Quick puzzle
Across
1. Art of war (8)
5. Bale (4)
9. Flower (4)
10. Erupt (5,3)
11. Object (5)
12. Agony (7)
13. Diplomacy (13)
18. Retaliation (8)
19. Encounter (4)
20. Commotion (7)
21. Braid (5)
22. Tiller (4)
23. Candidate (8)
Down
2. Plague (7)
3. Attack (7)
4. Rubella (6,7)
6. Annul (7)
7. Sauce (7)
8. Slang (6)
13. Expand (7)
14. Clothing (7)
15. U.S. inventor (6)
16. Like (7)
17. Spanish (7)
Thursday's solutions
CRYPTIC
Across: 1 Result; 4 Clefts; 9 Courts-martial; 10 Redress; 11 Latin; 12 Under; 14 Miner; 18 Amble; 19 High tea; 21 Beauty contest; 22 Riders; 23 Sexton.
Down: 1 Record; 2 Sounding-board; 3 Lithe; 5 Lorelei; 6 Fair treatment; 7 So-long; 8 Smash; 13 Ejector; 15 Barber; 16 Shock; 17 Carton; 20 Genre.
QUICK
Across: 1 Doubts; 4 Tricky; 9 Effervescence; 10 Comment; 11 Valid; 12 Clasp; 14 Dregs; 18 Erase; 19 Appease; 21 Uninteresting; 22 Flying; 23 Fringe.
Down: 1 Drench; 2 Unfamiliarity; 3 Terse; 5 Recover; 6 Conflagration; 7 Yields; 8 Petty; 13 Sweeten; 15 Rebuff; 16 Carry; 17 League; 20 Poser.
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