Compact crossword

Monday's puzzle
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Jul 2011, 14:08 BST
Updated 31st Jul 2011, 20:48 BST

Across

7 Mountain chain (6)

8 Innate (6)

9 Bath stopper (4)

10 Decade (8)

11 Unfasten a catch (6)

12 Frustrated (6)

14 Climbed up (6)

17 Italian operatic tenor (6)

19 Container for leftovers (5-3)

21 Melt (4)

22 Stay behind (6)

23 Person from Jalalabad (6)

Down

1 Act as substitute (4,2)

2 Initial (8)

3 Lively celebration (4-2)

4 Capable of flight (6)

5 Border on (4)

6 Ebb (6)

13 1777 battle (8)

15 St Vitus's dance (6)

16 Show up as false (6)

17 Brandy (6)

18 Sacred beetle (6)

20 Wear away (4)

Saturday's solution

Across: 1 Amass, 4 Assay, 10 Rider, 11 Couthie, 12 Calamity, 13 Bows, 15 Puffer, 17 Recess, 19 Teak, 20 Renegade, 23 Tetanus,

24 Antic, 25 Scrap, 26 Ferry. Down: 2 Medal, 3 Strumpet, 5 Spur, 6 Athlone, 7 Precipitate, 8 Acute, 9 Persistence, 14 Relegate, 16 Frantic, 18 Lease, 21 Actor, 22 Anta.