Compact crossword

Wednesday's puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Warlike (8)

5 Thoroughfare (4)

9 Walks in water (5)

10 Widespread (7)

11 Ghosts (12)

13 Started (6)

14 Automatic pilot (6)

17 Town at southern end of Loch Ness (4,8)

20 Part of a chair (7)

21 Impudent (5)

22 Biblical passage (4)

23 Acknowledge recognition (4,1,3)

DOWN

1 Having cut the grass (4)

2 Robber (archaic) (7)

3 Try to assess reaction (4,3,5)

4 Look at (6)

6 Florentine iris (5)

7 Yorkshiremen from valleys (8)

8 That cannot be protected (12)

12 Puffed out (8)

15 Edible stem (7)

16 Dame _______ Christie (6)

18 New recording (5)

19 Chinese dog (4)

Tuesday's solution

Across: 1 Famous, 4 Scrawl, 9 Larceny, 10 Rebut, 11 Haste, 12 Palermo, 13 Sensational, 18 Precise, 20 Waste, 22 Range, 23 Inroads, 24 Enlist, 25 Assets.

Down: 1 Filthy, 2 Mores, 3 Useless, 5 Carol, 6 Alberta, 7 Lotion, 8 Sympathetic, 14 Eternal, 15 Onwards, 16 Sparse, 17 Census, 19 Items, 21 Shale.