Compact crossword

Tuesday's puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Conflict (6)

4 Passed into disuse (6)

9 Trailing, climbing rose (7)

10 Examinations (5)

11 Rope with a running noose (5)

12 Pupil (7)

13 The making of an April fool (4-3-4)

18 Rigid roof on a car (7)

20 Soothsayer (5)

22 Talked wildly (5)

23 Stringent (7)

24 Puts on ice (6)

25 Have faith in (6)

DOWN

1 Saunter (6)

2 Sloping surfaces (5)

3 Quarrel (4,3)

5 Highland fishing village (5)

6 Believe credulously (7)

7 Hanker after (6)

8 Insect (11)

14 Disentangle (7)

15 Hard worker (coll) (7)

16 Divided up (6)

17 Passionate (6)

19 Hot drink (5)

21 Avarice (5)

Monday's solution

Across: 8 Oar, 9 Operating, 10 Table, 11 Termini, 12 National, 14 Debt, 15 Gate, 16 Addendum, 20 Bolshoi, 21 Apple, 23 Charlotte, 24 Nil.

Down: 1 Boston, 2 Crab, 3 Toledo, 4 Pentland Firth, 5 Carry, 6 Dividend, 7 Egoist, 13 Total war, 15 Go back, 17 Eraser, 18 Muesli, 19 Chile, 22 Pine.