Solutions to previous puzzle:

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Fishing-rods; 9 Hearing; 10 Llama; 11 Put on; 12 Instead; 13 Enmity; 15 Raisin; 18 Dearest; 20 Brief; 22 Sound; 23 Betters; 24 George Cross Down: 2 Inapt; 3 Hair-net; 4 Noggin; 5 Rules; 6 Drawers; 7 Shepherdess; 8 Hard and fast; 14 Measure; 16 Arbiter; 17 Stable; 19 Eider; 21 Ideas.

QUICK

Across: 1 Punctuality; 9 Umbrage; 10 Guile; 11 Roast; 12 Entitle; 13 Entire; 15 Murder; 18 Shorten; 20 Aloft; 22 Mania; 23 Written; 24 TemperamentDown: 2 Umbra; 3 Chatter; 4 Uneven; 5 Light; 6 Twisted; 7 Quarrelsome; 8 Penetrating; 14 Trounce; 16 Uranium; 17 Answer; 19 Tramp; 21 Often.