Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Pleasure haunts where a black suit is required after dark (5-5)

7. Giant container breached by the Territorial Army (5)

8. Very large crowd I have to follow (7)

10. See 4 Down

11. What regular consumers don't do quickly (4)

13. When deciphered, my code will cause amusement (6)

15. One-eyed kind of craft! (6)

17. Some land back in the former capital (4)

18. Particular inclination to write church music (8)

21. They're employed to suit other people (7)

22. Annie has become vacuous (5)

23. Minor fuss associated with the French perfume (10)

Down

1. Being put in a solution, it reacts (5)

2. Eg. I'd once broken up racial extermination (8)

3. Keeping a watch on (6)

4 And 10 Across. Those keeping to the track don't! (4,3,5)

5. Just the one to act unscrupulously in the gang (7)

6. Say the skill needed by the government (10)

9. Irene Tate's frenzied pleas (10)

12. Give a picture of French writer (8)

14. Became a member of a union (7)

16. Doesn't continue lawsuits when the first of the evidence is introduced (6)

19. Not linked with what the actor takes (5)

20. Mere indoor game (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Control (10)

7. Unsoiled (5)

8. Prattle (7)

10. Intensify (8)

11. Overtake (4)

13. Concoct (6)

15. Evil (6)

17. Slant (4)

18. Extend (8)

21. Doubtful (7)

22. Entertain (5)

23. Dejected (10)

Down

1. Avarice (5)

2. Conquer (8)

3. Remember (6)

4. Absent (4)

5. Retrenchment (7)

6. Authorised (10)

9. Homes (10)

12. Shame (8)

14. Talkative (7)

16. Motive (6)

19. Frequent (5)

20. Gambol (4)

Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

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Across: 7 Bread and water; 8 Discreet; 9 Lent; 10 Madras; 12 Orates; 14 Resume; 16 Slight; 18 Flog; 20 Tapestry; 22 Downing Street.

Down: 1 Irritate; 2 Lascar; 3 Pace; 4 Editions; 5 Paella; 6 Mean; 11 Scenting; 13 Exhorted; 15 Urgent; 17 Insert; 19 Loom; 21 Post.

QUICK

Across: 7 Miscellaneous; 8 Manifest; 9 Bolt; 10 Limpid; 12 Enlace; 14 Bypass; 16 Thorny; 18 Shut; 20 Ordinary; 22 Disconcerting.

Down: 1 Vitality; 2 Scrimp; 3 Flee; 4 Maltreat; 5 Verbal; 6 Pull; 11 Discount; 13 Confront; 15 Attack; 17 Ornate; 19 Heir; 21 Deem.