Compact crossword - The scotsman 13/08/12

Published on 13/08/2012 00:00

Monday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 At all places at once (10)

8 Miser (7)

9 Breast (5)

10 Oblique (4)

11 Evidence (4)

12 Japanese sea-bream (3)

14 Crafty (6)

15 Shirker (6)

18 Noah’s boat (3)

20 Egyptian port (4)

21 Strap on hawk’s leg (4)

23 Enticed (5)

24 Dictionary (7)

25 At all places at once (10)

DOWN

1 Healing ointment (7)

2 “Terrible” tsar (4)

3 To a very great extent (6)

4 Flat surface of furniture (8)

5 Overturn (5)

6 Unavoidable (11)

7 At all places at once (11)

13 Dark horse (8)

16 Pass in the Highlands (7)

17 Associate (6)

19 City in north-west Russia (5)

22 Wheel pivot (4)

Saturday’s solution

Across: 7 Transgression, 9 Titanic, 10 Adios, 11 Ruin, 12 Spale, 16 Spool, 17 Dial, 21 Inane, 22 Advance, 23 Transcendence.

Down: 1 Stature, 2 Captain, 3 Using, 4 Assault, 5 Timid, 6 Gnash, 8 Reciprocate, 13 Appease, 14 Winning, 15 Alleged, 18 Dirty,

19 Banal, 20 Evade.