Cryptic puzzle
Across
4. Bengali changes his nationality (7)
8. Somehow recall a room (6)
9. Badly adheres to the cut (7)
10. Reveal a French translation of evil (6)
11. Hired an antler? (6)
12. Make Alec trip over a very small piece (8)
18. Strange oriental kinsman (8)
20. Oberon's new island (6)
21. Get copper to evaluate a churchman (6)
22. Haggle for a cheap purchase (7)
23. Go back on a decree somehow (6)
24. Wed an admirer perhaps (7)
Down
1. Drink will make us cry about the politician (7)
2. Plants fifty in positions on a cricket field (7)
3. Thanks to Pat I got an island (6)
5. Heavenly - some like the real thing, though (8)
6. An old woman rang up New York (6)
7. Imitate humans like an extinct primate (6)
13. Cornelia's going out with another girl (8)
14. Parties organised at sea (7)
15. Terribly enraged (7)
16. Not as a rewritten piece of music (6)
17. Love to anger and upset the wild ass (6)
19. Medusa became happy (6)
Quick puzzle
Across
4. Misrepresent (7)
8. Confession (6)
9. Punishment (7)
10. Movement (6)
11. Abundance (6)
12. Name (8)
18. Outside (8)
20. People (6)
21. Histrionics (6)
22. Impute (7)
23. Oppose (6)
24. Slumberer (7)
Down
1. Concord (7)
2. Attire (7)
3. Strand (6)
5. Unskilled (8)
6. Journey (6)
7. Whirl (6)
13. Responsive (8)
14. Restrain (7)
15. Fickle (7)
16. Subordinate (6)
17. Transfix (6)
19. Cap (6)
Thursday's solutions
CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Enumeration; 9 Dab; 10 Dissenter; 11 Chess; 13 Rissole; 14 Twinge; 16 Inmate; 18 Oarsman; 19 Bohea; 20 Annulment; 21 Arc; 22 Astringents.
Down: 2 Nob; 3 Modes; 4 Resort; 5 Treason; 6 Osteopath; 7 Educational; 8 Irrelevance; 12 Emigrants; 15 Gambler; 17 Intern; 19 Bathe; 21 Apt.
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Hide AdQUICK - Across: 1 Confiscated; 9 End; 10 Decompose; 11 Owned; 13 Rancour; 14 Scribe; 16 Scrimp; 18 Liaison; 19 Dwelt; 20 Shivering; 21 God; 22 Unthinkable.
Down: 2 Old; 3 Faded; 4 Secure; 5 Almanac; 6 Economise; 7 Remorseless; 8 Decrepitude; 12 Narration; 15 Beseech; 17 Ensign; 19 Dogma; 21 Gel.