Last week’s solutions:

CRYPTIC – Across: 1 Brass founder; 7 Agent; 8 Inset; 9 Ill; 10 Sam Weller; 11 Retort; 12 Helmet; 15 Compasses; 17 Sol; 18 Extol; 19 Aspen; 21 Clothes lines. Down: 1 Billiard cues; 2 See; 3 On time; 4 Noiseless; 5 Easel; 6 Storytellers; 7 Allot; 10 Streamlet; 13 Mason; 14 Estate; 16 Motel;

20 Pal. QUICK – Across: 1 Make ends meet; 7 Rebel; 8 Chair;

9 Lop; 10 Cattiness; 11 Undone; 12 Redeem; 15 Husbandry; 17 Get; 18 Eaten; 19 Elder; 21 Spiritedness. Down: 1 Manslaughter; 2 Ebb;

3 Dilate; 4 Machinery; 5 Erase; 6 Presumptuous; 7 Rapid; 10 Container; 13 Eager; 14 Advent; 16 Set up; 20 Dud.