Compact crossword
ACROSS
1 Conflict (6)
4 Passed into disuse (6)
9 Trailing, climbing rose (7)
10 Examinations (5)
11 Rope with a running noose (5)
12 Pupil (7)
13 The making of an April fool (4-3-4)
18 Rigid roof on a car (7)
20 Soothsayer (5)
22 Talked wildly (5)
23 Stringent (7)
24 Puts on ice (6)
25 Have faith in (6)
DOWN
1 Saunter (6)
2 Sloping surfaces (5)
3 Quarrel (4,3)
5 Highland fishing village (5)
6 Believe credulously (7)
7 Hanker after (6)
8 Insect (11)
14 Disentangle (7)
15 Hard worker (coll) (7)
16 Divided up (6)
17 Passionate (6)
19 Hot drink (5)
21 Avarice (5)
Monday's solution
Across: 8 Oar, 9 Operating, 10 Table, 11 Termini, 12 National, 14 Debt, 15 Gate, 16 Addendum, 20 Bolshoi, 21 Apple, 23 Charlotte, 24 Nil.
Down: 1 Boston, 2 Crab, 3 Toledo, 4 Pentland Firth, 5 Carry, 6 Dividend, 7 Egoist, 13 Total war, 15 Go back, 17 Eraser, 18 Muesli, 19 Chile, 22 Pine.