Compact crossword

Published on Tuesday 23 June 2009 19:13

Wednesday's puzzle

ACROSS

1 Become strongly attracted to another (4,2,4)

7 On guard (anag) (7)

8 Repeated theme (5)

10 Welsh emblem (4)

11 Humiliation (8)

13 Of a singing group (6)

15 Part of speech (6)

17 Eastern (8)

18 Flow over (4)

21 Ladder-like structure (5)

22 Exhausted (3-4)

23Cervine animal (6,4)

DOWN

1 To be played loudly (5)

2 Bumpkin (4)

3 Used in a building (6)

4 Fizzy drink (8)

5 Render defective (7)

6 Misleading (10)

9 Lag (4,6)

12 Precipitation (8)

14 Japanese island (7)

16 Soft tissue in bone (6)

19 Love-affair (5)

20 In the past (4)

Tuesday's solution:

Across: 7 Stupor, 8 Exempt, 9 Veto, 10 Accosted, 11 Atones, 12 Russet, 14 Curses, 17 Doubts, 19 Affected, 21 Brew, 22 Cinder, 23 Create.

Down: 1 Attest, 2 Appoints, 3 Breaks, 4 Mercer, 5 Fees, 6 Sphere, 13 Stumbled, 15 Unfair, 16 Saturn, 17 Deduce, 18 Treaty, 20 Eddy.