Double crossword

WEDNESDAY'S puzzle

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Egalitarian, like a teacher without pupils? (9)
8. Container of burnt remains (3)
9. Mount a scare with bad butterflies for actors? (5,6)
11. Release the sailor to provide the answer (7)
12. The proposal isn't on, apparently (5)
13. It will dawn on us when she appears (6)
15. Clear disorder on pierhead and make a packet (6)
17. Youth leader has odd chat in boat (5)
18. Dunderhead is spinster - fire her! (7)
20. Post-prandial train-fender (5-6)
22. Up and down the hill at both ends of 14 (3)
23. Dog Communist compiler (3,6)

Down

2. Permit such a hindrance (3)
3. Could be nutty or explosive inside (5)
4. Not quite scholarly but got wages (6)
5. Italian lady could be soaring (7)
6. Hors de combat, and this not in court proceedings (3,2,6)
7. Round and round among the coteries (2,7)
10. Certainly not sculpture in concrete (8,3)
11. With varying speeds whatever may happen (2,3,4)
14. This muscle goes up and down and sends things round (7)
16. Loved sum about mineral (6)
19. 50 in the team really go down? (5)
21. Girl the night before the morning after? (3)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Pending (9)
8. Born (3)
9. Pacification (11)
11. Guarantor (7)
12. Coalesce (5)
13. Show (6)
15. Furrow (6)
17. Umbrage (5)
18. Handsome (7)
20. Unseemliness (11)
22. Clique (3)
23. Ill-fame (9)

Down

2. Pinch (3)
3. Order (5)
4. Dull (6)
5. Visionary (7)
6. Question (11)
7. Stand for (9)
10.Nearness (11)
11. Wakeful (9)
14. Debase (7)
16. Announce (6)
19. Mistake (5)
21. Add up (3)

Tuesday's solutions

CRYPTIC – Across: 7 Eleven; 8 Spoons; 10 Baffled; 11 Caber; 12 Lief; 13 Decay; 17 Fires; 18 Veto; 22 Heart; 23 Thrones; 24 Lagoon; 25 Belong. Down: 1 Netball; 2 Set free; 3 Peels; 4 Special; 5 Booby; 6 Usury; 9 Adherents; 14 Fiction; 15 Leans on; 16 Corsage; 19 Shell; 20 Barge; 21 Order.

QUICK – Across: 7 Labour; 8 Daring; 10 Spaniel; 11 Brawl; 12 Lank; 13 Stage; 17 Quite; 18 Drop; 22 Crowd; 23 Dilemma; 24 Latent; 25 Recede. Down: 1 Closely; 2 Obtains; 3 Lurid; 4 Cabbage; 5 Final; 6 Agile; 9 Platitude; 14 Mundane; 15 Premier; 16 Apparel; 19 Scale; 20 Booth; 21 Alter.