Cryptic puzzle
Across
7. Be strongly inclined to be brainy? (4,1,4,4)
8. Follower of a neat herd (8)
9. Admit a pledge (4)
10. What a marvel - got victory over backward Communist (6)
12. Patient care is their concern (6)
14. Failed in the open (6)
16. Thin spears broken (6)
18. There may be a chance to draw them (4)
20. Everything is plain at the end of the emergency (3,5)
22. Not the secret service, of course (6,7)
Down
1. Don't touch: the workers are leaving (5,3)
2. A myth about where the foot is? (6)
3. Make the giant go up again (4)
4. Study camping equipment from the inside (8)
5. I am to get two to spoil (6)
6. Open around one, content (4)
11. Let the bride be missing at the ball? Good-welcome relief! (8)
13. Rapturous oriental tactics reformed (8)
15. Lie, say, without difficulty (6)
17. The most competent stable reorganization (6)
19. Where the responsibility lies (4)
21. Implement picked up in plunder (4)
Quick puzzle
Across
7. Violation (13)
8. Lookout (8)
9. Brink (4)
10. Venom (6)
12. Lessen (6)
14. Rigorous (6)
16. Oust (6)
18. Win (4)
20. Inside (8)
22. Eminent (13)
Down
1. Leading (8)
2. Standing (6)
3. Chief (4)
4. Of good stock (4-4)
5. Be present (6)
6. Yearn (4)
11. Nourishing (8)
13. Purchaser (8)
15. Set on fire (6)
17. Die (6)
19. Dry (4)
21. Accurate (4)
Monday's solutions
CRYPTIC
Across: 1 Bier; 8 All the same; 9 Dark room; 10 Iota; 12 Lassie; 14 Stains; 15 Minute; 17 Bremen; 18 Type; 19 Redolent; 21 Positively; 22 So-so.
Down: 2 Incapacity; 3 Rank; 4 Alcove; 5 Rhymes; 6 Estimate; 7 Hera; 11 Tenderness; 13 Souvenir; 16 Earwig; 17 Bidder; 18 Taps; 20 Lays.
QUICK
Across: 1 Just; 8 Inimitable; 9 Man-eater; 10 Dark; 12 Silver; 14 Enable; 15 Sinner; 17 Preach; 18 Brag; 19 Jeremiad; 21 Correction; 22 Deep.
Down: 2 Unfamiliar; 3 Tire; 4 Bitter; 5 Fierce; 6 Hardware; 7 Peak; 11 Reluctance; 13 Vinegary; 16 Reject; 17 Permit; 18 Back; 20 Mend.
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