Compact crossword

Today’s puzzle...
By The Newsroom
Published 13th Oct 2011, 10:40 BST

ACROSS

7 Prevail (4)

8 And so on (2,6)

9 Head of a monastery (5)

10 Diary (7)

12 To score (in cribbage) (3)

13 Alliance of parties (9)

16 Miser (9)

17 Small cask (3)

19 Burden with a difficult task, etc (3,4)

21 Feeble (5)

23 Distinction (8)

24 Flat-bottomed boat (4)

DOWN

1 Disturbance (8)

2 Lure (5)

3 Section of a relay race (3)

4 Coaching (9)

5 Recapitulate (7)

6 Operatic song (4)

11 Subsequent (9)

14 Acquiescent (8)

15 Pain-killing (7)

18 Underground chapel (5)

20 Units of electrical resistance (4)

22 Beseech (3)

Wednesday’s solution

Across: 1 Charleston, 7 Everton, 8 Earth, 10 Luke, 11 Ilkeston, 13 Niggle, 15 Hold it, 17 Thornton, 18 Flan, 21 Night, 22 Great go,

23 Launceston.

Down: 1 Creak, 2 Arty, 3 Lonely, 4 Skeleton, 5 Oersted, 6 Wellington, 9 Hunstanton, 12 Plankton, 14 Georgia, 16 Tongue, 19 Luton, 20 Bent.