Cryptic puzzle
Across
1. They should get what's coming to them (9)
8. Finally refuse custom (3)
9. Personal impression that is very individual (11)
11. Fundamental shifting in cargo (7)
12. Take some reflex action (5)
13. Personal property in Oriental kingdom (6)
15. His leader expresses his opinion (6)
17. Take slight action (5)
18. Having poor taste (7)
20. Cautiously asking why the plumbing is wrong (8,3)
22. Hurry up, we hear (3)
23. Women tend to alter a permanent income (9)
Down
2. Runner in various kinds of winter sports (3)
3. A driver's objective, of course (5)
4. Have prospects? (6)
5. Salary? Spend it for a change (7)
6. Finishes – a sentence (4,1,4,2)
7. Trade died perhaps, if workers were so weary! (4,5)
10. Late tenders? (5,6)
11. Give short change – it's a mistake of sorts (9)
14. Heavyweight certain to produce a close shave (7)
16. Noted and objected (6)
19. Is put up with new strength (5)
21. Run amok, holding tea perhaps (3)
Quick puzzle
Across
1. Fleeting (9)
8. Poem (3)
9. Demolition (11)
11. Act of contrition (7)
12. Perfect (5)
13. Stirred up (6)
15. Maintain (6)
17. Avoid (5)
18. Resolute (7)
20. Clever (11)
22. Perform (3)
23. Release (9)
Down
2. Regret (3)
3. Temptress (5)
4. Shun (6)
5. Trifling (7)
6. Ally (11)
7. Remember (9)
10. Oddity (11)
11. Eternal (9)
14. Built (7)
16. Telegrams (6)
19. Arrange in a row (5)
21. Pony (3)
Thursday's solutions
CRYPTIC
Across: 7 Oboist; 8 Gambol; 10 Typhoon; 11 Emend; 12 Cost; 13 Thing; 17 Deems; 18 Yarn; 22 Steep; 23 Inferno; 24 Idling; 25 Lessee.
Down: 1 Contact; 2 Compose; 3 Estop; 4 Taverns; 5 Ebbed; 6 Slide; 9 In the main; 14 Serpent; 15 Fairest; 16 Unrobed; 19 Astir; 20 Heels; 21 Often.
QUICK
Across: 7 Bright; 8 Trough; 10 Lateral; 11 Veldt; 12 Take; 13 Unite; 17 Canny; 18 Toga; 22 Worst; 23 Stretch; 24 Clique; 25 Finite.
Down: 1 Ability; 2 Mistake; 3 Share; 4 Brevity; 5 Surly; 6 White; 9 Bluntness; 14 Hauteur; 15 Contain; 16 Cashier; 19 Twice; 20 Train; 21 Frail.
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