Compact Crossword

Wednesday's puzzle

By The Newsroom

Published 11th May 2010, 20:09 BST

ACROSS

7 Ballet-skirt (4)

8 Settle a debt (6,2)

9 Thick lump (5)

10 Strange (7)

12 Reduction (3)

13 Fivefold (9)

16 Former PM (9)

17 Flightless bird (3)

19 Give reluctantly (5,2)

21 Comical (5)

23 Hungarian capital (8)

24 Society (4)

DOWN

1 Secret (4-4)

2 Toothless (5)

3 Utilise (3)

4 Craftily (9)

5 Blunt (7)

6 Cougar (4)

11 Huts (9)

14 Reflecting light (8)

15 South American country (7)

18 Midday meal (5)

20 Burden (4)

22 North American Indian (3)

Tuesday's solution

Across: 1 Irritating, 8 Reforms,

9 Moved, 10 Inro, 11 Pure,

12 Sue, 14 Rueful, 15 Strict,

18 Tag, 20 Nero, 21 Spur,

23 Oread, 24 Fervour,

25 Perpetrate.

Down:

1 In force,

2 Rare,

3 Tissue, 4 Tempests, 5 Nevis,

6 Arbitration, 7 Adventurers,

13 Turned up, 16 Implore,