Compact crossword - The Scotsman 13/07/12

Published on 13/07/2012 00:00

Friday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 A N ______, name added to list (5)

4 T S ______, poet (5)

10 Architectural style (5)

11 Basic (7)

12 D H __________, novelist (8)

13 Fall heavily (4)

15 A J _______, novelist (6)

17 J M _______, novelist (6)

19 Complaint (4)

20 Channel of large stream (5-3)

23 Abrade (7)

24 H E ______, novelist (5)

25 Scowl (5)

26 Prescription (5)

DOWN

2 Toss (5)

3 Popular assembly of ancient Athens (8)

5 Peeress (4)

6 Of kissing (7)

7 Author of “Lorna Doone” (1,1,9)

8 W G _______, cricketer (5)

9 Painful rupture (7,4)

14 Acknowledge applause (4,1,3)

16 More impervious to light (7)

18 A A ______, author (5)

21 P W ______, former South African PM (5)

22 G B _____, dramatist (4)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 1 Aspidistra, 7 Anaconda, 8 Vats, 9 Excel, 10 Dialect, 12 Consternation, 15 Impulse, 17 Infer, 20 Clot, 21 Rare bird, 22 Passengers. Down: 1 Annex, 2 Pickets, 3 Dank, 4 Stations, 5 Ravel, 6 Stucco, 11 Censures, 13 Ormolu, 14 Tenable, 16 Ultra, 18 Earns, 19 Tron.