Compact crossword - The Scotsman 17/01/2014
ACROSS
1 Overlook (4,2)
4 Support (4,2)
9 Parking-place (3-2)
10 Imprisons (7)
11 Expression of repugnance (3)
12 Finished (3,4,2)
13 Scrabble, darts, etc (6,5)
18 Parking not on the road (3-6)
21 Understand (3)
22 Sailors’ call to exertion (5-2)
23 Cricketing position (3-2)
24 Nag at (4,2)
25 Alternate halting and starting (4-2)
DOWN
1 Multiple collision (4-2)
2 Tell me at what time to stop pouring (3,4)
3 Purchase all available stock (3,2)
5 Cake soaked in alcoholic spirit (3-4)
6 Looked closely (5)
7 Continue (4,2)
8 Sour drink (6,5)
14 Very active (2,3,2)
15 Slackened (5,2)
16 Feast (4-2)
17 Outbuilding (4-2)
19 Swiss currency (5)
20 Lure (5)
Thursday’s solution
Across: 1 Paraphrase, 7 Flocked, 8 Stump, 10 Lags, 11 Vagrants, 13 Astute, 15 Meddle, 17 Innocent,
18 Pier, 21 Ghana, 22 Elicits, 23 Advertised. Down: 1 Prong, 2 Rake, 3 Pedlar, 4 Resorted,
5 Stunned, 6 Offloading, 9 Pasteurise, 12 Stockade, 14 Tankard, 16 Unseat, 19 Iliad, 20 Wits.