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. The end carriage (4)
8. Nevertheless there's a lack of variety (3,3,4)
9. Place set aside for development (4,4)
10. I come back to a matter of trivial importance (4)
12. Dog-star (6)
14. Marks that upset good men (6)
15. Very little time (6)
17. Where the Germans outgun me (6)
18. Use various keys in a composition? (4)
19. Strongly reminiscent of state aid in rent (8)
21. Perhaps pity is love, really (10)
22. Twice as tolerable (2-2)

Down
2. Inability in volume (10)
3. It's coarse to have a row (4)
4. Retreat for a chap about fifty (6)
5. Pronounced similarities (6)
6. Reckon tea-time's been changed (8)
7. Male Egyptian deity becomes Greek female one (4)
11. The unusually stern needs of affection (10)
13. What we get from a sour vine will help us remember a place (8)
16. I grew a strange creeper (6)
17. There's a lot he wants (6)
18. Gently knocks over the kitchen sink! (4)
20. Sets down songs (4)


Quick puzzle

Across
1. Fair (4)
8. Unsurpassable (10)
9. Cannibal (3-5)
10. Gloomy (4)
12. Precious metal (6)
14. Empower (6)
15. Transgressor (6)
17. Sermonize (6)
18. Boast (4)
19. Lamentation (8)
21. Amendment (10)
22. Profound (4)

Down
2. Strange (10)
3. Weary (4)
4. Acrimonious (6)
5. Savage (6)
6. Ironmongery (8)
7. Summit (4)
11. Unwillingness (10)
13. Sour (8)
16. Discard (6)
17. Allow (6)
18. Support (4)
20. Repair (4)


Friday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Assignees; 8 Use; 9 Fingerprint; 11 Organic; 12 Exact; 13 Estate; 15 Editor; 17 Spurn; 18 Insipid; 20 Sounding out; 22 Hie; 23 Endowment.

Down: 2 Ski; 3 Green; 4 Expect; 5 Stipend; 6 Puts a stop to; 7 Dead tired; 10 Night nurses; 11 Oversight; 14 Tonsure; 16 Minded; 19 Sinew; 21 Urn.

QUICK

Across: 1 Transient; 8 Ode; 9 Destruction; 11 Penance; 12 Ideal; 13 Roused; 15 Allege; 17 Evade; 18 Adamant; 20 Intelligent; 22 Act; 23 Disengage.

Down: 2 Rue; 3 Siren; 4 Eschew; 5 Trivial; 6 Confederate; 7 Recollect; 10 Singularity; 11 Perpetual; 14 Erected; 16 Cables; 19 Align; 21 Nag.