Compact Crossword - The Scotsman 16/03/2012
ACROSS
1 Lying on one’s back (6)
4 Environmentalist (6)
9 Large branch of a tree (5)
10 Graceful (7)
11 Fib (3)
12 Italian dictator (9)
13 Prudish (6-5)
18 Overnight stay (9)
21 Vegetable (3)
22 Reigning (7)
23 Pull vehicle behind (3,2)
24 Sore (6)
25 Barbed (6)
DOWN
1 Tenuous (6)
2 Discreet (7)
3 OT book preceding Habakkuk (5)
5 Italian violin (7)
6 Canteen for servicemen (5)
7 Piece of gossip (6)
8 Heightened awareness (11)
14 Placate (7)
15 Authorise (7)
16 Liveliness (6)
17 Delicately pretty (6)
19 Royal burgh near Lossiemouth (5)
20 Toothed bar (5)
Thursday’s solution
ACROSS: 1 Suspicious, 7 Unusual, 8 Moats, 10 Lynx, 11 Inundate, 13 Nephew, 15 Annexe, 17 In league, 18 Iago, 21 Harsh, 22 Immerse, 23 Condescend.
DOWN: 1 Spurn, 2 Scum, 3 Inland, 4 Imminent, 5 Unaware, 6 Outlandish, 9 Stevedores, 12 Detached, 14 Palermo, 16 Duties, 19 Acrid, 20 Smee.